[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <l89vkj$s61$1 at news.albasani.net>,
	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-12-11 15:52:
>> In article <l89tcr$nbo$1 at news.albasani.net>,
>> 	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-12-11 15:08:
>>>> In article <l899ro$11t$2 at dont-email.me>,
>>>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>>> As far as I see it, VMS is of low value without Rdb.
>>>>>> I do not see a "newVMS" that hasn't Rdb in the picture.
>>>>>> And Rdb is, as I'm sure everyone know, not owned by HP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There is probably more than a few VMS sites that do not use RDB.  Just
>>>>> because you use it doesn't mean that your environment is typical.
>>>>
>>>> Other than running on VMS, what does RDB offer that is not available
>>>> from any other DBMS?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Don't know where to start.
>>> Anyone that have used Rdb know about it strengths.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems
>>
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> No, none realy. It all looks good apart from a one "No" and one "?"
> that today should be "Yes" for Rdb under "Indexes".
> 
> And of course the line of "No" in "OS Support", but that was a
> no-brainer, not? :-)
> 
> What is not visible in that table is the OS integration and
> general ease-of-use that makes Rdb to stand out. The management
> tools for backup/export/import/unload/load and so on.
> 
> So, on *VMS*, Rdb is far better then the alternatives.

But how many places today run their databases on the same machine they
run their applications?  I certainly wouldn't engineer a system to do
that.  The exception, perhaps, being all this Windows stuff that now
uses their stripped down SQLServer to store everything.  

bill

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