[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-03 kl. 00:33, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 12/2/2018 2:51 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> Oracle makes $'s with its products (Oracle DB and Rdb) or they do not 
>> continue to offer them.
> 
> Obvious true.
> 
> Larry runs a business not a charity.
> 
>> Some examples, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) use Rdb because it 
>> offers the features, reliability and performance they are looking for.
>>
>> SSE dumped HP-UX back in 2010 and migrated to OpenVMS Rdb on Integrity 
>> servers as their next generation multi-site cluster trading platform.
>>
>> Another one - an OpenVMS Rdb app today controls most of the trucks 
>> entering Canada at all border crossings. If the App stops, so do all the 
>> trucks.
>>
>> Another one - Frankfurt airport uses OpenVMS Oracle DB Classic in a HA 
>> environment where if the App stops, so do all the bags flowing throughout 
>> one of the biggest airports in Europe.
> 
> Question is whether the revenue will continue to be enough to cover
> both product development cost and the expected profit.
> 
> It is not cheap to support a platform for a database.
> 
> Does Oracle DB on VMS come with all that stuff it does on other
> platforms (AQ, embedded Java etc.)?
> 
> Arne

Latest Oracle "Classic" on VMS is (just) the client API parts.
No DB engine.