[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
>But even so, Oracle Classic seems to be a non-starter.  The fraction of 
>people using it on VMS is very low anyway, and was never high, and VMS 
>types certainly prefer Rdb.  Oracle Classic on VMS is a niche market and 
>I can't see any new customers coming to VMS because of that.  At best 
>one could keep the few existing ones, at enormous cost. 

Oracle Classic is a huge market.  Oracle Classic on VMS is a miniscule
market, but a good opportunity for expansion.

I was hoping that by this point in the cycle VSI would be a bit farther
along and that it might be time to start thinking about opportunities
for expansion, but it really isn't yet.  

This is a shame, and it looks like the boat has been missed, but that is
how life is sometimes.

>As for web browsers, what is the difference between a server and a 
>workstation, these days?  Servers no longer have 20 serial ports.  The 
>on-chip graphics is probably better than a graphics card on VAX, Alpha, 
>or Itanium, and would be sufficient for 99% of users.

When I install Red Hat on a server, the web browser is one of the first
things I remove, after gnome, networkmanager, modem manager, avahi, and
another load of unnecessary crap.  It's one more thing that exists only
to require patching.
--scott

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