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

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Now add to that mix a database product that made the DB port rather 
trivial.  Not saying such exists now, but, it could in the future.