[Info-vax] RDB Question

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sun Dec 2 18:47:16 EST 2018


On 12/2/2018 6:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

Sorry, but Richard sometimes seems to be in his own little world ....

Even a casual read of what you've been responding to most likely would 
have been helpful.

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