[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 11/15/2020 8:22 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Dave Froble wrote :

>> For example, if there were services on the database servers, or other
>> systems that could directly access the Oracle database servers,, which
>> would act as an middleman between the application systems and the
>> Oracle database servers.  Then for example the VMS systems would
>> "talk" to the middleman application(s), and no longer need the Oracle
>> client software locally.
>>
> Not going to happen.

If that is the knee-jerk reaction to any suggestions, then it most 
definitely won't happen.

> If we need to dedicate significant amounts of
> resources to develop something just to keep the OpenVMS platform in
> business, the decision will certainly be to dedicate those resources
> to eliminate that platform from our IT landscape once for all.

What I mentioned is what I commonly refer to as a relay.  Basically a 
communications application.  I've implemented some to get between VMS 
applications and communications with services available on the internet, 
mainly due to the shortcomings of the TCP/IP and SSL/TLS available on VMS.

Obviously the design of such an appliance will depend heavily upon the 
required communications.  But "significant amounts of resources" is not 
in that picture.  Something like that should take much less than a 
single man year, and you mentioned the alternative is perhaps 200 man years.

As a possible incentive, I have no idea of the cost of Oracle client for 
VMS including support, but such a relay would not incur such costs, 
perhaps actually saving some costs, and that would be yearly savings vs 
a single development cost.

But I'm not involved, don't have any horse in this race, and whether the 
concept gets a fair consideration isn't really my affair.

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