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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/26/2019 8:02 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Short term memory fails you.

Some may remember the spat between HP and Oracle, and something from 
Oracle about new versions and support and such.  Now, it was, I seem to 
recall, about Oracle Classic on HP-UX, mainly.  The Rdb people avoided 
any issues by just not using certain numbers in versions.  They could 
implement any new features they wished, they were just limited in what 
they could call them.

Don't be so quick to forget the past.

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