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

[Dave Froble]

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.

Correct, and if there are customers who don't like the cost of Rdb, 
enabling those customers to use a free RDBMS would help retain those 
customers.


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