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

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <515a085a$0$583$e4fe514c at dreader34.news.xs4all.nl>,
>  MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> I doubt many non-commercial VMS users would 'need' or, let alone,
>> /prefer/ to run Rdb or any RDBMS in general for their enjoyment
>> at home.
>>
>> I personally certainly don't see much of a point, except perhaps
>> (the less impressive, but adequate) MySQL or SQLite (that I've
>> been working on for VMS), like in combination with a HTTP server.
> 
> I definitely saw the point of installing Rdb on my Hobbyist Alpha 
> several years ago.  At the time MySQL didn't even support transactions, 
> and the documentation made me despair.  In contrast the Rdb 
> documentation was up to VMS standards :-)
> 

Having seen it mentioned in the past, I thought I'd take a look at 
POSTgreSQL.  Unfortunately, at their download page, VMS was not one of 
the supported distributions.

Can or does this database work on VMS ??