[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/2/18 3:31 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.  :-)
> 

I hope your right.  But, as I pointed out, I was following
a thread.  I was not the one who first suggested that Oracle
was dropping VMS.  It was someone who I thought was much
deeper in the VMS world than I have ever been or claimed
to be.

bill