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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-03-26 kl. 13:02, skrev 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

It is of course just silly to expect some specific number of
changes from a specific version change. Do read the release
notes or "new feutures" manual for the details.

Note also that specifically around the 7.3 release, there was
some "issues" due to the Oracle/HP discussions. 7.3 was released
as the "last supported Rdb version" to one or two selected
customers, just to be able to get it into the official Oracle
documents at that time. After that it took some time before
it become publically available.

There are approx 100 changes and new feauture just in the 7.3
stream, I havn't looked at the 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 streams...