[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-10-28 kl. 14:21, skrev 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 ?
>

Yes, I still think so.

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

I have never had any VMS environment that was migrated to IA64, but I
cannot remember that there was any significant delay. As soon as there
was a bootable VMS/IA64, Oracle begun building Rdb for it using cross
compilers on Alpha. When compilers was avilable, they switch to native
builds of Rdb. Google for a powerpoint called "Porting Rdb to Itanium".

It would surprice me a lot if Oracle is not one of the partners that
are looking at V9 on x86 at the moment.


> Simon.
>