[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <d3100a4f-1183-4680-9771-44109864ec85n at googlegroups.com>,
IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes: 

> I've worked with rdb for just over 20 years and I thought after Oracle
> ended Oracle real on VMS I figured rdb would meet the same fate 

Rdb started at DEC.  It was bought by Oracle via the argument that if it 
stayed with DEC, then Oracle wouldn't offer Oracle "Classic" on VMS.  
But development continued with pretty much the same people in the same 
places.  Rdb is a very small part of Oracle.  Does Larry know about it?  
Almost certainly.  Does he know the syntax of RMU/UNLOAD?  Probably not.

> Somewhat disappointing the news wasn't via Oracle or vsi as an
> announcement, even chatter to say it's being worked on as an
> investigative endeavor 

This is OLD NEWS.  The Rdb folks have said all along that if VMS runs on 
x86 then so will Rdb.  As an Oracle product, VSI couldn't announce it by 
themselves.  As for Oracle, again, it is a small part of the enterprise.

> So vsi had no idea Oracle was working on rdb x86? 

Of course they did.

> Oracle never had a complier problem or issue getting rdb running? 

The port can't have been that difficult, considering that this is the 
fourth port (yes, there was Rdb for WNT).

> What else might be being worked on that would be good for VMS users
> out there to know? 

Soon we'll hear about the web browser being developed by the skunk 
works.  :-)