[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.
Jan-Erik Söderholm
jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Tue Oct 27 10:24:47 EDT 2020
Den 2020-10-27 kl. 15:00, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 10/27/2020 9:46 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-10-27 kl. 14:33, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>> On 2020-10-26, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 10/26/2020 7:18 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>>> We are writing to inform you that Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 will be the
>>>>> terminal Oracle Database release offered on the OpenVMS platform. MOS
>>>>> DOC ID 742060.1 has recently been updated to reflect this development.
>>>>
>>>> Not good.
>>>
>>> I thought VSI were talking to Oracle to stop things like this from
>>> happening ? :-(
>>
>> This is in line with that Oracle has said for many years. The server
>> part will leave VMS but you can still use the client part to build
>> VMS application that runs against an Oracle database server.
>
> Does Oracle DB (Oracle classic) share network protocols with
> Oracle Rdb?
>
> I seem to remember that somebody at some time said that Rdb SQL Services
> borrowed lots of code from Oracle DB (Oracle classic).
>
> Arne
Probaly from
Probaly from SQL*Net in that case.
Rdb <-> Oracle Classic
SQL/Services <-> SQL*Net
Basic SQL/Services has its own protocol, but there is also an OCI
option for SQL/Services that uses the Oracle SQL*Net protocol. That
makes an Rdb database to look like an Oracle Classic DB form a client.
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