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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/25/2019 3:37 PM, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok, then that brings up an important question.  Is the port due to 
capabilities, financial, or other?

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