[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ropc6q$nms$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> 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, 

Right.

> but a good opportunity for expansion.

How?  Get VMS users to move to Oracle Classic?  Those using a database 
are probably using Rdb.  Get Oracle Classic Users to move to VMS?  Why?  
What would that bring to them?  Rdb works so well on VMS because it 
makes use of native VMS features (the DLM and so on).  If the database 
itself works in failover mode, why does one need a cluster?  And so on.  
Face it, folks: drumming up support for Oracle Classic on VMS is less 
likely to succeed than my dream of a modern web browser.  :-|