[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/27/2018 9:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/27/2018 8:59 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Simon Clubley
>>> via Info-vax
>>> On 2018-05-27, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
>>> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>>> Rdb (almost a part of VMS),
>>>
>>> It would have been nice to have a proper database instead of the RMS
>>> implemention of indexed files (which have _not_ aged well) as a
>>> guaranteed part of VMS and which _any_ application could use.
>>>
>>
>> [snip..]
>>
>> One needs to remember that no other platform provides native relational
>> DB's as part of the OS either.
> 
> Really?
> 
> I thought several OS'es shipped with SQLite.

And on several *nix then MySQL/MariaDB (and sometimes PostgreSQL)
can be installed by the OS package manager.

Which is somewhat the equivalent of this millennium of being on
the VMS LP CD.

Arne