[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 11/12/2020 9:09 PM, Kerry Main (C.O.V.) wrote:

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

Maybe, but some customers like the perceived security blanket.

IBM hasn't been counted out yet, even though some have predicted it many 
times.

> 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.

I'd think that VSI would do well to have some database products 
associated with VMS.  I doubt they have the people to do much work on 
such, but, just an "approved by VSI" could be helpful.

Which in at least one case gets back to the numeric range locking.


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