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

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Bob Koehler skrev den 2015-06-29 15:58:
>>   In article <mmoqdh$f5r$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>>   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>
>>> This is a non-issue, since VMS without Rdb is a dead-end anyway.
>>
>>     For some, yes.  For comercial success, maybe.
> 
> I ment that it is a dead-end for VSI, of course.
> I did not mean every VMS shop...
> 
>>     All the VMS systems I've had over the years, not one had RDB on
>>     it.
> 
> OK, fine. But that was not what I ment.
> 
> Jan-Erik.
> 
> 

It's entirely understandable that VMS without RDB is useless for you. 
Your environment counts on having RDB.

How you get to some subset of VMS users needing RDB, to "dead-end for 
VSI", is questionable.  In your opinion, yes.  But your opinion is not 
universal.

Now, VSI is going to have to address the issue.  Apparently too many VMS 
users do need a DB, and anyone using RDB is definitely running VMS. 
Possibly an agreement with Oracle, or just providing whatever is needed 
for Oracle to support RDB on x86, or the development of another product, 
such as MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or whatever, to the point where it could 
easily replace RDB.  Note, it would be possible, though I have no idea 
how much work would be involved, to have a drop-in replacement for RDB.

Also note, before Jan-Erik has another fit, that by "drop-in 
replacement", I mean just that.  Install it, no changes required, and 
the applications think they're still using RDB.  Totally functionaly 
equvalent.