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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/26/2019 7:54 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/26/2019 7:42 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2019-03-26 kl. 12:37, skrev rickmurphy at gmail.com:
>>> On Tuesday, 26 March 2019 05:45:22 UTC, Phillip Helbig (undress to
>>> reply)  wrote:
>>>> Rdb folks have said publicly that if VMS runs on x86, then Rdb would.
>>>
>>> Um ok I didn't know that had been publicly stated. That wasn't my
>>> impression having spoken to someone who attended one of the recent
>>> "Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS" update sessions. But I only
>>> got my impression from her impression, which was that Oracle were very
>>> careful not to say that Rdb would be ported x86, and equally careful not
>>> to say it wouldn't be. If you see what I mean. Non-committal puts it
>>> better.
>>
>> Is there anyone in their right mind that actually thinks that VMS would
>> have a future without Rdb? On any platform. Of course VSI must have
>> fairly firm comittments from Oracle that Rdb will be available on
>> VMS/X86-64.
>>
>> So no, the availablitly can not be an issue. It must be other things
>> like maybe the cost.
> 
> Don't know about "right mind", but my left mind tells me that there are 
> those using VMS without any RDBMS.  So one could ask, does VMS have any 
> future without them?  Give up the tunnel vision Jan-Erik.

There are certainly lots of VMS sites not running a RDBMS.

But my assumption would be that the VMS systems running RDB
(or Oracle classic) are a pretty big chunk of VMS dollar sale.

I have no idea if it is 25% or 40% or something else. But VMS can ill
afford to loose that business.

Arne