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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com skrev den 2015-06-30 15:08:

> VSI is in fairly regular discussions with Oracle and these exchanges
> started more or less on Day 1 of VSI. Months ago we met with the Oracle
> engineers to discuss porting to x86. We talked about this at last fall's
> Boot Camp and the follow-on Oracle Technical Forums. Given the large
> number of VMS customers that use either Oracle or Rdb it is difficult to
> imagine moving the current customer base forward without those two
> products. As is always true with Oracle you will not see any official
> announcements until very near the time a product ships.
>
> Porting Oracle and Rdb to VMS are both huge, but very different,
> undertakings. Both are being planned and should be quite similar to the
> previous porting efforts.
>

Maybe it is just not me not beeing english native, but... :-)

Should that read:

 > Porting Oracle and Rdb to VMS-x86/64 are both huge, but very different,
 > undertakings. Both are being planned and should be quite similar to the
 > previous porting efforts.

And then there are the fine details as usualy. As far as I know, when it
comes to "Oracle classic", it is the programming API ("client" parts)
that are available on VMS. Not the full Oracle Server products (?).

Anyway, I do see that VSI agree with my statement that a VMS port
to x86-64 without Rdb (and Oracle client), would be hard to sell
to the current (and probably any new) VMS "market".

Jan-Erik.