[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pu1elv$r4r$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
<craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> Talk titles include "Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Product
> Update" and "Oracle 11g and Oracle 19 Port Status." 

Note that they are not skipping over 7 versions.  Rather, I gather, 
future Oracle (Classic) versions will reflect the years of release 
(rather like Fortran).

> Upper management in
> some corporation have been known to talk for an hour about things that
> don't exist, but I'm pretty sure Kevin Duffy and Gary Huffman are
> technical managers who would have difficulty filling an all-day program
> with nonexistent or discontinued things. I infer therefore that these
> things (Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on VMS) do exist and more
> versions are planned for the future. Maybe someone who was at that
> meeting can say whether I guessed right.

Yes, such meeting are good evidence that the death of VMS has been 
greatly exaggerated.  :-)