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

[Paul Sture]

In article <515ad548$0$6345$e4fe514c at dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2-apr-2013 14:44, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > Of course.  "Playing around" is what you do with a hobbyist
> > system.
> 
> Not necessarily, I've used (or, anyway, tried to use) my VMS
> "Hobbyist"-licensed systems as a general purpose 'home' server.
> 
> That whole idea never really worked out for what I had in mind,
> hence why I moved away from VMS and will only be emulating it
> for keeping up to date on DCL and my ongoing porting projects
> (including SQLite).

Please keep us post on SQLite progress.  I have found it a useful tool 
(on other platforms).

> > 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.
> 
> They are okay with that, but I'm not.  I don't see the point
> of playing around with something as lackluster and potentially
> boring as a full-blown RDBMS, but that's me.

That's the crux of it.  I have always found database stuff interesting
in itself.

-- 
Paul Sture