[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-02 kl. 21:18, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> On 12/2/18 1:51 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
>>> Gunshannon via Info-vax
> 
>>> And that bodes well for the VMS customer base how?  Considering that what
>>> we are hearing is that Oracle is planning on dropping VMS support.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like Trump talk "many people are telling me ..."
>>
>> Where did you hear Oracle was planning on dropping OpenVMS?
> 
> Bill's logic goes something like this:
> 
> 1.) Someone asks why we need SharkSQL when we already have Rdb.
> 2.) Various people point out the importance of Rdb to the VMS ecosystem.
> 3.) Bill has never seen Rdb in the wild.
> 4.) Oracle is clearly dropping all support for VMS.
> Q.E.D.
> 
> I think there are some steps missing there, and 20 seconds with a search
> engine reveals that three weeks ago Oracle and VSI jointly hosted an
> all-day session about Oracle products on VMS:
> 
> <https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/community/paris-openvms-agenda-2018-5120762.html> 
> 
> 
> Talk titles include "Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Product
> Update" and "Oracle 11g and Oracle 19 Port Status." 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.

A list of the 2018/2019 "Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS"
Technical Forums. The EMEA forums was earlier in 2018 but the US
forums in January and February are still open for registration.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/rdb/community/index-101986.html

There is also a link to the presentation material used that seem to
be current up to late November 2018.

http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/rdb/zip/OracleVSIEMEA2018.zip

I had some issues with the ZIP, my "7-Zip" tool would not directly
open the whole ZIP, but the extract option worked. Got 11 PDF files
that all worked just fine. A recommended read, I saw some information
that I hadn't seen before...

Jan-Erik.