[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rom141$v4h$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2020-11-12, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> > Den 2020-11-12 kl. 19:22, skrev Simon Clubley:
> >> I've just checked VSI's website - there's nothing there that I can see
> >> and this is _major_ and _very_ good news for VMS on x86-64.
> >
> > Right, and I think that was commented on also.
> 
> It's now the next day and still nothing on the VSI website that I can see.
> 
> This is absolutely massive and excellent news for the future of VMS
> and by now every customer that VSI has the contact details for should
> have been told about it, especially the non-Rdb users. :-(

Rdb users probably already knew it.  I can't see an announcement 
attracting non-Rdb users to VMS.

> This would send a major signal because VSI have managed to get _Oracle_
> to commit to Rdb on x86-64 and it would be a major confidence boost that
> x86-64 VMS is less likely to suddenly fail at the last moment.

Rdb was ported before.  Maybe they did it right.  Maybe it was more or 
less compile and go, hence not a big commitment.  Not to take away from 
Rdb engineering, but trying to spin this as some huge commitment on the 
part of Oracle would probably be stretching it.  Has Larry heard of Rdb? 
Very probably.  VSI?  Probably.  The port?  Maybe a word or two.  I'm 
sure that he is more committed to his yachts than to VMS.