[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/13/2020 2:30 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <romjf6$v13$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajhøj?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> Den 2020-11-13 kl. 17:01, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>>>> My guess is that the number who would like Oracle Classic on VMS is much
>>>>> smaller.  Can you point to even one person?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'v got a private message (and I think it was mentioned in the event
>>>> yesterday from France) that at least two custerers in France have said
>>>> that they will leave VMS due to Oracle "Classic" leaving VMS.
>>>
>>> I'm one of them. Without the Oracle Client, OpenVMS where I work
>>> is dead. Fortunately I'll be retired before that. But VSI can write
>>> off 25 systems that will never be migrated to X86.
> 
> Blame the "VMS is for servers" crowd who forgot "desktop to datacenter".
> :-|

Not really.

Oracle client is really a server thing not a desktop thing.

Having a desktop application making a direct connection to the
database has not been in fashion in the last 20 years.

And should probably not have been so in the 10 years preceding,
but ...

Arne