[Info-vax] How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <83fe8$540729c8$5ed4324a$55749 at news.ziggo.nl>, Dirk Munk
<munk at home.nl> writes: 

> RdB is quite essential for VMS of course. 

For some people yes, for some now.  I suspect that a high percentage of 
paying customers use Rdb, though---certainly higher than in the general 
VMS population.

> A few days ago I checked the 
> Oracle web site, and it only stated that support for RdB 'has an open 
> end'. That in itself is good, but there was nothing about the new 
> situation with VMS, let alone some kind of statement about a possible 
> port to x86. Does anyone know it there are talks between Oracle and VSI 
> and/or HP about such a port?

This was mentioned in the conference call, and IIRC on the Rdb JCC list.