[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rpm85v$spg$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > The announcement that Rdb is available for x86-VMS tells the manager 
> > nothing about whether enough people will be using VMS on x86-64 to make 
> > it a relatively safe decision for that manager to also take.
> >
> 
> You _still_ don't get it Phillip.
> 
> It tells the manager that a major vendor has committed to x86-64 VMS
> and that in itself helps give a increased level of confidence. 

In other contexts known as vaporware.

> There's a reason why DEC spent the time maintaining the old application
> source books. This stuff matters. Big time.

And what happened to DEC?

> That information only became available in public very recently and is
> still not on the VSI website that I can see.

Rdb engineers have said, publicly, for years now that they expect Rdb to 
run on VMS a short time after the first boot.  Old news.