[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/2/2018 10:08 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>> Sent: December 2, 2018 6:33 PM

>> 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.
> 
> Of course .. how long as Oracle been supporting OpenVMS with Classic and Rdb
> now?

For a very long time.

But then I believe that VMS revenue has gone down and maintenance cost
in general has gone up over these years.

> And with Oracle OpenVMS on X86-64, it will become 50% cheaper for new
> OpenVMS Oracle Customers. Their Oracle platform conversion factor will be
> 0.5 (X86) instead of 1.0 as is the case with AIX (Power), HP-UX (Integrity)
> and OpenVMS (Integrity, Alpha).
> 
> Hopefully this will apply to Rdb as well?

That seems like a fair assumption.

>> Does Oracle DB on VMS come with all that stuff it does on other platforms
>> (AQ, embedded Java etc.)?
> 
> Not all, but remember that typically, 80% of Oracle shops only use 20% of
> all the available features.

True.

My point is just that Oracle DB has become huge over the years with all
kinds of stuff.

An Oracle DB install today fill up 10 GB on disk.

RDB requires only 300 MB.

Arne