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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-06-29 22:25:14 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:

> David Froble skrev den 2015-06-29 18:37:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I think there are enough VMS users that also needs/uses Rdb to make it 
> a dead-end for a VMS/x86 port without Rdb.

Would the currently-entirely-hypothetical omission of Rdb hurt?  Most 
definitely.

But if I've got a choice of porting off of OpenVMS to another operating 
system and also porting off of Rdb to another database as part of the 
same project, or just porting databases, I would most definitely 
consider staying on OpenVMS and porting the data from Rdb to another 
local database.   Some research and estimates of the effort involved 
would be entailed, as well as discussions around risk aversion and 
costs, obviously.


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