[Info-vax] Other than Oracle, What MySQL/DBMS options are there for OpenVms?

[Kerry Main]

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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Other than Oracle, What MySQL/DBMS options are
> there for OpenVms?
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> On Tuesday, 26 March 2019 05:45:22 UTC, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> wrote:
> 
> > Rdb folks have said publicly that if VMS runs on x86, then Rdb would.
> 
> Um ok I didn't know that had been publicly stated. That wasn't my
> impression having spoken to someone who attended one of the recent
> "Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS" update sessions. But I only
> got my impression from her impression, which was that Oracle were very
> careful not to say that Rdb would be ported x86, and equally careful not
to
> say it wouldn't be. If you see what I mean. Non-committal puts it better.
>

That is the way Oracle has always been i.e. when new hardware is about to
become available, they never commit to releasing a supported version until
they have had time to test it and are confident about official dates they
can meet.

This was the case even back when there was a new Alpha server available. It
drove us crazy back in the DEC days because Customers would always ask "this
new server looks great - when will Oracle support it?"

And this was true of all OS / hardware platforms - not just OpenVMS.


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com