[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Dave Froble]

On 12/2/2018 8:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/2/18 7:28 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/2/2018 5:49 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
>>> On 2/12/2018 3:16 pm, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <ptvknm$2qf$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>>>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> Good to have if Oracle abandons VMS but that would be enough to kill
>>>>>> VMS
>>>>>> on its own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like another who doesn't get out much.
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard, do you think everyone using VMS also uses Oracle?
>>>>
>>>> If we are talking about Oracle Rdb, then a large fraction of VMS users
>>>> use it.  I don't know how large.  In terms of the fraction of revenue
>>>> generated for VMS, Rdb users are probably quite important.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was talking about both.
>>
>> If Oracle starts bending over customers and BF them for no good
>> reason, all of their customers will wonder who's next, and start
>> looking for alternatives.  Wouldn't you?
>
> I doubt the users of Oracle Classic even know of the existence of RdB
> or that they would care what happened to it.
>
> bill
>

I fail to understand your perspective(s) ....

Either Rdb has been running at a loss all this time, or, they have been 
profitable all this time and are a profit center for Oracle.  If the 
former, I'd think it would be long gone.

Now Oracle Classic, the announced problem with HP was the extra work to 
qualify Oracle Classic on HP-UX.  The real issue was Larry f**king with 
people, I do believe.

So, from that perspective, one would imagine that if either would be in 
danger, it would be Oracle Classic.

Therefore your bringing up people knowing Rdb exists, for whatever 
reason which I cannot understand, really isn't relevant now, is it?

Of course all this speculation is meaningless, since it's been pointed 
out that Oracle is talking to customers about their products on VMS on 
x86.  So why don't we just drop it?

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