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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/26/19 1:45 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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).
> 

And, even if that was true it would still be less than a
blip in their bottomline.

bill