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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/26/2019 8:06 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

This situation may actually be the fault of Palmer.

He told customers that VMS was for the database tier.

And there really wan not that many databases available for VMS.

Arne