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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/25/2019 7:31 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/25/2019 4:27 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2019-03-25 kl. 20:37, skrev Denys Beauchemin:
>>> 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.
>
> Cost if often a very important factor in business
> decisions.
>
> Besides that and with the caveat of not knowing much about
> neither RDB nor PostgreSQL, then I would expect RDB to be
> lacking some features among what has become common in
> databases within the last 20 years.
>
> If you say that >90% of users do not need those
> features, then I will say that you are probably right.
>
> :-)
>
> Arne

That's some rather rash speculation, unless you have some justification. 
  Just because HP ignored VMS doesn't mean Oracle ignored RDB.

It's more likely financial, butk, I asked that question, instead of 
speculating.

However, if all data used to be on VMS, then there would be the need for 
another non-VMS server, and the expertise to use it.

It also occurs to me that Kerry Main has in general been forecasting 
such activity.

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