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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/26/2019 1:56 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

????

As I remember the HP Oracle dispute then:
* Oracle announced they would stop supporting Itanium
* HP sued because they believed Oracle was contractually bound
   to support Itanium
* The judge agreed with HP

I do not remember anything about Oracle not being allowed to
bump major version numbers.

Arne