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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/29/2015 8:53 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Actually, I think that it NEEDS to happen, unless VSI can work a deal
> with Oracle.  Rdb (if you insist) is dead without VMS.  At least as it
> now stands.  So, VSI will be doing something to allow Oracle to continue
> to make some coins.  I'd think that Oracle should reward VSI for this in
> some financial manner.  Percent of service revenue.  Something.

I am sure that VSI would love that.

> Failing that, then long term I'd think it would be good for VSI to
> pursue a project, not necessarily all in-house, to develop a RDBMS that
> would be a drop in replacement for Rdb.  Perhaps one of the existing
> RDBMS products.  Perhaps all new.  Perhaps first one, and then the other.

I have not used RDB for 18 years so I am not particular qualified
to comment on this, but I suspect that it would be very difficult
to shoehorn full RDB compatibility into an existing RDBMS.

>  From things you've written in the past, I have the impression (which
> could be wrong) that your customer(s) are forking over more dinero to
> Oracle than to HP.  That leads me to consider that a RDBMS can produce
> better revenue than an OS.  Feel free to correct me.  (As if you haven't
> always ..)

That is almost a given.

Oracle software licenses are notorious for being extremely expensive.

Most of their stuff is 25K - 250K per "processor" (and a "processor" is
2 cores on x86-64 if I remember correctly).

Try do the math for 2 nodes with 2 sockets with 8 core CPU's.

Arne