[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-06-28 20:31:
> On 15-06-28 14:19, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>
>> What fraction of VMS customers use Rdb?  It is certainly lower than the
>> fraction of Rdb customers who use VMS.  There are some big customers of
>> VMS who do not use Rdb (and perhaps no database software at all).
>
>
> I recall at one point that Oracle was planning on integrating RDB
> functions into Oracle so that one needed only 1 product.
>

A number of Rdb specific features, as in the optimizer, has been
moved over to classic Oracle. I guess the patents held by DEC
around Rdb was included in the deal.

Besides of that there was a lot of talkes around streamlining
the interfaces like the Oracle functions that can be loaded
into Rdb, OCI and the Rdb support in Oracle Developer.

> How close is Oracle to being able to replace RDB on VMS ?

Replace with what? Oracle "classic". Not particular close, I'd say.

>
> The reason I bring this up is that if Oracle Inc only had to do 1 DB on
> VMS instead of 2, it might become more functional and have greater
> development/progress than wnen the same budget is split between 2 products.

Problem is that that hypothetical product might end up enough different
from the classical Oracle data on other platforms so it would be a
separate/different product anyway.

>
> Wondering if there might be an opportunity to merge the 2 once and for
> all with the port to the 8086.
>

I thought they was going to port to a modern Intel platform.