[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/12/2020 11:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/12/2020 9:09 PM, Kerry Main (C.O.V.) wrote:
>> 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.

There are other databases than PostgreSQL.

Besides Rdb then MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, Mimer, HSQLDB, H2 and Derby
all run on VMS today.

That is a very different bunch of databases, so all of them would
not be applicable to all cases, but one or more of them should be
applicable for most cases.

Arne