[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

Kerry Main (C.O.V.) kemain.nospam at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 21:09:37 EST 2020


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> In article <rok0n3$1v8s$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> > VSI want to (and many hear agree with them) focus on servers.
> 
> But even so, Oracle Classic seems to be a non-starter.  The fraction of
people
> using it on VMS is very low anyway, and was never high, and VMS types
> certainly prefer Rdb.  Oracle Classic on VMS is a niche market and I can't
see
> any new customers coming to VMS because of that.  At best one could keep
> the few existing ones, at enormous cost.
> 
> As for web browsers, what is the difference between a server and a
> workstation, these days?  Servers no longer have 20 serial ports.  The
on-chip
> graphics is probably better than a graphics card on VAX, Alpha, or
Itanium,
> and would be sufficient for 99% of users.
> 

Fwiw, I believe that the big (and very, very expensive) software makers like
Oracle, IBM, SAP are in for a few tough years ahead.

In the enterprise space, while the last 10 years was all about reducing IT
and hardware costs (x86 virtualization,  DC consolidation etc.), the next
10+ years is going to be about reducing IT software costs.

Remember the old saying - "80% of the Enterprise Customers use only 20% of
the available features in high end databases like Oracle"?

More and more enterprise Customers are going to be looking for "good enough"
(but exponentially cheaper) DB solutions in the same way that Enterprise
Customers for last 10+ years switched from higher end hardware platforms
(SPARC, ALPHA, PA-RISC etc) because the alternative platforms (X86-64) were
not necessarily better, but rather "good enough", and much cheaper.

Rdb on OpenVMS X86-64 is great news. 

However, in future, my $.02 is that VSI is better to create a better and
more competitive platform for alternative App/DB solutions than to spend
significant resources chasing after Oracle Classic.

Kerry




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