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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/26/2019 2:46 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-03-26 kl. 19:26, skrev 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.
> 
> Well, Oracle planned to issue a "last version" list for their VMS
> Itanium products. The Rdb team had a new Rdb version nearly finished.
> They released it to a few selected customers, just to be able to add
> "7.3" to that list. And after that, they had to stick with the 7.3.x.x
> line of versions to not break against that "last version" list, they
> were not allowed to release a 7.4 or, for that matter, an 8.0 version.
> 
> This is how the Rdb team presented this on some customer forum.
> 
> Since you're not updated on the background here, you do not know this.

No. But I still don't see the problem.

Oracle announced that 7.3 would be the last.

Oracle can easily change their mind and announce 7.4 or 8.0.

I don't believe HP or the judge would prevent them from this.

It is an Oracle decision. Decisions can be changed.

Arne