[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rnbs20$on2$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >
> >What fraction of paying VMS customers use Oracle "classic" (which is 
> >what the announcement is about)?  What fraction use Rdb?  What fraction 
> >use some other database?  What fraction use no database (not counting 
> >RMS)?
> 
> 
> Probably not many use Oracle Classic.  However, if there is any chance of
> expanding the customer base at all and get new people to use VMS, having
> support for Oracle is a big, big deal.  There are a lot of people using 
> Oracle on their back end systems.

Big users of Oracle Classic probably have an application very tied to 
the database.  There isn't a huge advantage for them moving to VMS.  My 
guess is that, among paying customers, more than half use Rdb and less 
than 1% Oracle Classic.