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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/27/2018 10:14 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>> via Info-vax
>> Sent: May 27, 2018 9:32 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming
>> file
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Are you sure about this?
> 
> As part of the OS install?

That is what they claim.

>> 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.
> 
> Still a separate DB not integrated or maintained by the native platform provider as Simon was requesting.

Patched, build, put in platform repo and configured for platform
by platform provider.

I think that is exactly what Simon is requesting.

Arne