[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Dave Froble]

On 12/2/2018 6:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/2/18 2:46 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <g6ile5FhnofU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> But if Oracle plans to drop 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.
>>
>> Depends on the bank.  :-)
>>
>> The Rdb guys have always said that if VMS runs on x86, Rdb would as
>> well.  I think that Oracle dropping VMS (and hence Rdb) would be sort of
>> like HP dropping VMS: VSI would hire the old guys and it would continue
>> much as before.  :-)
>>
>
> Except that oracle has to be willing to release RdB to VSI
> and I certainly can't see a business argument for that, quite
> the opposite actually.
>
> bill
>

Well, for one thing, Oracle pissing off a bunch of large customers would 
be a bad business move on their part.

Frankly, unless the revenue drops drastically, (which means those bunch 
of customers are no longer using Rdb), I don't see Oracle dropping the 
product.

Do remember that as far as I know, the people working on Rdb are still 
in the NorthEast.  Basically the DEC people who developed it, I believe. 
  Sort in the same area as VSI.  Nuff said on that.

Now back to those large customers, you know, the type that like to hire 
lawyers when someone pisses them off.  You think Oracle wants that?  Not 
saying they don't also have lawyers.  But in such cases the only winners 
are the lawyers, so it's not in Oracle's best interest.  If Oracle 
doesn't want Rdb, there is a good chance that some deal happens for 
someone else to take it over.

Not the same, but, some developers didn't like what Oracle did with 
MySQL, and now we have MarieDB.  I think I got that one correct.

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