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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/28/2015 9:59 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> David Froble skrev den 2015-06-28 17:03:
>>> IanD wrote:
>>>> The need for a DB of some sorts? -------------------------------- A
>>>> DB was once considered mandatory as a product to have available on a
>>>> given OS platform, Windows and Access (later sql server), Linux and
>>>> MySQL, OpenVMS and RDB, IBM and DB2 bla bla bla, what to do about
>>>> OpenVMS x86-64 and <blank>, what should be inserted here if it's not
>>>> going to be RDB?
>>>
>>> I'd ask at what time while the popularity of VMS was growing did RDB
>>> become
>>> available?  My memory is that it wasn't initially available.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb says 1984.
>> Wasn't that hard to find, was it? :-)
>> So it was quite early. The need was there then (and probably a
>> couple of years before during the development of Rdb), and that
>> need has only grown over the years, of course.
>
> So, during 1978 to 1984, a period when VMS was growing quite rapidly, it
>   got along with RMS or third party databases.

Yes.

And they also sold VMS boxes with 1 MB of RAM.

Something selling in 1978 does not guarantee that it will sell
in 2015.

Almost the opposite. There is a pretty good chance that something
selling in 1978 will not sell in 2015.

Arne