[Info-vax] MariaDB (Re: OT: what is old is new again?)

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Nov 24 04:37:44 EST 2016


Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 11/23/16 2:05 PM, David Froble wrote:
> 
>> Now, this is where people like me, third party vendors, get confused.
>> Whether it's Mark, or someone else, or VSI, what's the difference?  If a
>> third party agreed to provide support and such, they why do you insist
>> on only the developer of VMS?
> 
> As has been said, numerous times I think, no such third party exists.
> There are multiple vendors who offer commercial support for MariaDB and
> even more for MySQL. But not on VMS. There are free community edition
> downloads of binary installation packages and/or instructions for
> installing from source for all major platforms. But not for VMS.
> 
> Anyone wanting to sell VMS to people who don't already have it (or are
> struggling to keep it) will need an answer for the question "Where can I
> get X for VMS?" where X may be MariaDB, NodeJS, MongoDB, or hundreds of
> other packages that can be dabbled with for free and high quality
> commercial support obtained from multiple vendors. "We hope someone else
> will do it" might not always be considered an adequate answer.
> 
> Yes, VSI has injected some hope into the equation. But this problem has
> been around for a decade or two during which the free stuff has become
> vastly more important than it used to be.
> 

Yep, all true.  But not really on topic.  The topic was "why does it have to be 
the OS vendor?"

There are two questions.  First, are there any who see the need for formal 
support as an opportunity?  Second, are there any customers who will pay for it?



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