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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-03-25 kl. 20:37, skrev Denys Beauchemin:
> On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:59:22 AM UTC-5, rickm... at gmail.com
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 22 March 2019 21:51:37 UTC, Denys Beauchemin  wrote:
>> 
>>> VSI has officially released the Postgres client for OpenVMS in
>>> January of this year.  We have been working with it for about 6
>>> months now and we have customers developing with it.  This is the
>>> client only, not the server.
>> 
>> So... this means that an OpenVMS application can access PostgreSQL
>> natively, connecting to a Linux or Windows server that hosts the
>> PostgreSQL database? And you have applications running that do this?
> 
> Jon was exactly correct, I apologize for not being clearer in my
> original answer.  Yes, the Postgres client works very well on OpenVMS
> and allows the application on OpenVMS to have full communication with a
> Postgres server on any platform that supports it.
> 
> We are helping customers transform their OpenVMS code from Rdb access to
> Postgres access and that way the application can remain on OpenVMS for
> the foreseeable future.
> 

Why would staying with Rdb be an issue for staying with VMS?
Apart from the costs, of course.