[Info-vax] VSI software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/8/2020 6:12 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rgkdi9$m30$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> Rdb is a major player in the VMS market place. I'm willing to say
>>> that, without Rdb, the x86 port is mostly pointless. The remianing
>>> non-Rdb sites is *probably* not enought to support the VSI business.
>>>
>>> So it is in your own interest, David, no matter if you use Rdb, that
>>> Rdb will be available on VMS x86. I'm not concerned, it would surprise
>>> me a lot if Oracle is not one of the ISV's running VMS on x86 today.
>>
>> Rdb is important to VSI, if only because an Rdb user is locked into VMS.
> 
> Most don't mind.  Actually, at some point Rdb ran on WindowsNT.

Yes - it was developed and some beta versions released,
but it was pulled before being released.

>                                                                 However,
> Rdb is very VMS-like, not surprising since it originated at DEC, so it
> is natural to combine the two.  So, yes, Rdb users are locked to VMS; so
> are users of AUTHORIZE, SYSMAN, DIRECTORY, and so on.  :-)

Not a good comparison.

Databases are used by applications for some business purpose.

If the application is tied to Rdb then it is tied to VMS.

System management utilities and shell commands are used
to do stuff on the OS.

They do not tie the application to the OS.

And other tools doing something similar are available
on other OS.

Arne