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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/26/2019 1:48 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <q7c2f5$1jmf$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> Version number wise RDB has taken 23 years to go from 7.0 to 7.3.
 >
> I think Oracle classic now has the year as the major version number.

Yes. Many software products are switching from feature scoped versions
to time bound versions.

> That's like saying that the Yen is a bad currency because there are
> several of them to the dollar.  Software numbering varies enormously
> from product to product.

They do.

But I still associate:

7.2 -> 8.0

with bigger changes than:

7.2 -> 7.3

which I again associate with bigger changes than:

7.2.1 -> 7.2.2
7.2-1 -> 7.2-2
7.2u1 -> 7.2u2
7.2p1 -> 7.2p2

Arne