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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <55903d82$0$29740$c3e8da3$dbd57e7 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> I recall at one point that Oracle was planning on integrating RDB
> functions into Oracle so that one needed only 1 product.

Really?  From whom?

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

I'm not familiar with Oracle "classic" (on VMS or anywhere else), but
IIRC there are still a few things which Rdb can do which Oracle
"classic" can't.  And, of course, there is the RMU suite, which Rdb 
administrators prefer to any sort of Oracle "classic" tools.

> 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.

The total work is at least the same.  It's probably more, because then 
you have to merge the two, update the documentation, etc.

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

Hopefully not.  I can't think of one person who wants it.