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

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Mon Mar 25 21:08:57 EDT 2019


On 3/25/2019 8:02 PM, rickmurphy at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, 25 March 2019 20:27:48 UTC, Jan-Erik Söderholm  wrote:
>> Why would staying with Rdb be an issue for staying with VMS?
>> Apart from the costs, of course.
>
> For me, I think a big issue is whether Rdb will be available on OpenVMS for x86 going forward.  Cost is an issue, but product availability has to be the bigger issue, probably the biggest issue.
>

Do you have any reason to think that could happen?  Or is Chicken Little 
back claiming the sky is falling?

Really, from what I've been reading, it seems pretty sure Oracle will 
support RDB on x86.  And they would be fools to not do so.  Customers 
are hard to acquire.  Only fools throw them away.

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