[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-27, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I seriously doubt they are bothered about VMS on x86-64 at present. If it
> becomes a significant market success, they'll be able to support it. 
>

The problem with that is the delay it causes before Rdb users can
move to x86-64 VMS. It also causes additional uncertainty about whether
people will wait around to see how things work out with x86-64 VMS or
whether they start a move elsewhere now.

For the people who continue to wait for x86-64 VMS to become production
ready, they will still need to see Rdb is working correctly on x86-64
before they trust their production data to it so that is at least an
extra year or so after release of x86-64 Rdb until people trust it enough.

It has been stated here that Rdb is still in heavy use on VMS and that
having it available on x86-64 VMS is required to make the port of VMS
to x86-64 viable. Do the people who made that statement still think
that is the case ?

Also, does anyone know at what point during the port of VMS to Itanium
did Rdb become available on Itanium ?

Simon.

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