[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/2/18 2:51 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-12-02 kl. 19:09, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Do you have any current reference for that? Appart from the Oracle/HP
> battle some years ago.
> 
>>
>> But if Oracle plans to drop VMS support...
> 
> Again, do you have any source for any such "plans"?
> 
> I guess that if Microsoft plans to drop Windows support, there would
> be a number of issues for desktop/office users. But are they?
> 
> If the sky starts dropping down on our heads, a lot of people would
> have some issues. But is it?

I thought this thread just began with the statement that Oracle
was dropping 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.
>>
>> I had thought that VSI had meetings with Oracle.  Are we hearing
>> now that those meetings did not go very well?  That would not bode
>> well for the overall outlook for VMS.
>>
>> OK, I put the blindfold on, go ahead and shoot the messenger.
>>
> 
> But what if the messenger just makes up things or simply lies?
> Can't you have some requirements that the messenger should be
> able to have anything proving what he claims?
> 
> 

Hmmm...  Maybe this whole argument has been based on someone
else's speculation.  I just went back thru the thread and it
seems to have begun with Richard Maher's statement:

     "Good to have if Oracle abandons VMS but that would be
      enough to kill VMS on its own."

Maybe Oracle is not dropping VMS.  Not sure if there is any
way to verify one way or the other.

bill