[Info-vax] Oracle loses appeal in HP/Oracle Lawsuit

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kfjnok$1qa$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> First, I'll assume that Oracle is written in C, 

Rdb is written in Bliss.

> Consider RDB.  Oracle continues to develop and sell this database 
> product.  If there would be any product easy to kill off, it would be 
> something that runs on VMS, as HP for sure, and DEC I think, and maybe 
> even Compaq have made noises about VMS users being expected to migrate 
> to Unix.  It's also quite likely that there are some languages other 
> than C used in RDB, and Oracle would have to retain some expertise there 
> that isn't required on any other platform.

> So my question is, if Oracle sees value (profits) in continuing to sell 
> RDB, with it's unique (VMS only) requirements in doing so, then just 
> what the hell would be so expensive in continuing to sell Oracle Classic 
> on HP-UX, and VMS?

Perhaps most customers wouldn't pay for it without support, and support 
would be expensive so no-one would buy it.