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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <f37ef2c1-385f-4a03-9dc1-e1a36748b56e at googlegroups.com>,
rickmurphy at gmail.com writes: 

> On Monday, 25 March 2019 20:27:48 UTC, Jan-Erik S=C3=B6derholm  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.

Obviously, if it is not available, the cost doesn't matter.  :-)

Rdb folks have said publicly that if VMS runs on x86, then Rdb would.  
Has that changed?

My guess is that well more than half of VMS revenue come from people who 
run Rdb (and thus generate a similar amount of revenue for Oracle).