[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[Norm Raphael]

 > On 06/18/15, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)<helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
 > 
> In article <mluu36$1c8$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 
> 
> > This'd be a much easier problem with an integrated database available 
> > within OpenVMS; for PCSI, LMF, SYSUAF, etc.
> > 
> > Obviously: getting from the current home-grown database scheme over to 
> > a relational database package won't be trivial, and undoubtedly won't 
> > meet the release deadlines here.
> 
> Since it works very well with VMS and is a very good product, Rdb would 
> be the natural choice, but of course most customers wouldn't want to 
> spend the cost of an Rdb license just to let the OS do stuff with it.
> 
That license was bundled with VMS on my VAX-4000 and DEC/EDI used it.

Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy