[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <g6ile5FhnofU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> But if Oracle plans to drop VMS support wouldn't you think that
> businesses like that will be looking for a replacement with a
> future sooner rather than later?  Banks tend to be very conservative
> and very risk aware.

Depends on the bank.  :-)

The Rdb guys have always said that if VMS runs on x86, Rdb would as 
well.  I think that Oracle dropping VMS (and hence Rdb) would be sort of 
like HP dropping VMS: VSI would hire the old guys and it would continue 
much as before.  :-)