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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dirk Munk skrev den 2015-07-01 00:30:
> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2015-06-30 21:46:13 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>>
>>> OK, but then I don't understand why 32-bit systems require the Visual
>>> C++ 2008 runtime. Do you have any idea?
>>>
>>> (
>>> http://docs.datastax.com/en/getting_started/doc/getting_started/gettingStartedWindows_t.html
>>>
>>> )
>>
>> Probably because something in the site-specific customizations from
>> DataStax requires that.   I'd suggest asking on the Cassandra IRC or
>> mailing lists, or ask the DataStax folks that provided the prepackaged
>> kit.  That's probably going to have a better outcome than asking OpenVMS
>> folks about the details of integrating Oracle Java applications on
>> 32-bit Microsoft Windows based on a DataStax packaging of Apache
>> Cassandra, after all.
>>
>>
> Well, Arne stated that he had installed Cassandra on Windows, and that it
> is a pure Java environment. At the same time the prerequisites state that
> on a 32 bit Windows systems you need to have Visual C++ 2008 runtime
> installed. That seems to be a contradiction.

It might still be the installation program that needs the C++ runtime.
Nothing that should surprice anyone.

>
> Furthermore this part of the discussion is about Cassandra, not VMS. In the
> absence of a modern Java version on VMS it isn't possible to run or to try
> to run Cassandra on VMS.