[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/12/2020 11:19 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-11-12 kl. 17:05, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 10/28/2020 9:59 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <rnbs20$on2$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>>> Dorsey) writes:
>>>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> What fraction of paying VMS customers use Oracle "classic" (which is
>>>>> what the announcement is about)?  What fraction use Rdb?  What 
>>>>> fraction
>>>>> use some other database?  What fraction use no database (not counting
>>>>> RMS)?
>>>>
>>>> Probably not many use Oracle Classic.  However, if there is any 
>>>> chance of
>>>> expanding the customer base at all and get new people to use VMS, 
>>>> having
>>>> support for Oracle is a big, big deal.  There are a lot of people using
>>>> Oracle on their back end systems.
>>>
>>> Big users of Oracle Classic probably have an application very tied to
>>> the database.  There isn't a huge advantage for them moving to VMS.  My
>>> guess is that, among paying customers, more than half use Rdb and less
>>> than 1% Oracle Classic.

> Seems as the response from Oracle is to run your applications as
> usual using the client kit, but have the server on another platform.

If the client library is available then that is an option.

But I am sure that VSI would have loved to sell some VMS licenses
for Oracle DB servers ...

Arne