[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Paul Sture]

In article <kjejr2$hk8$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> MG wrote 2013-04-02 14:03:
> >
> >> But yes, it was a little streched. My point was that since
> >> Oracle allowes you to have Rdb on a hobbyist/test system,
> >> there is no specific reason not to.
> >
> > For what though, playing around with it locally?  As Paul
> > Sture also just now reminded us of, the license isn't
> > particularly /permissive/ either.
> >
> 
> OK. I haven't seen that writing. I remember from sometimes
> a few years ago that Oracle thought it was OK if you
> just "played around" with it.

FWIW I felt fine using it for training purposes, i.e. finding out what 
features a quality database has and how to use them.

Now that I have an Alpha emulator going and bags more disk space than on 
my now dead Alpha, I might give it another whirl.

-- 
Paul Sture