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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-24 kl. 10:37, skrev David Froble:
> 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?"

It doesn't, of course. Many are happy getting Rdb from Oracle and
has been for something like 15 years now. But that is a completely
different situation then for MariaDB...