[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-03, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <g6j6ruFlf4nU2 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
><bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>> 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.
>
> If there is a business argument against releasing it, then there is a 
> business argument against dropping it.
>

Sorry Phillip, but that is not correct.

A business argument for dropping it would be to force users onto
a more profitable platform (for Oracle). This same business argument
would be compromised if Oracle allowed a third party to maintain the
product which Oracle had just dropped.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world