[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-28, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2020-10-28 kl. 14:21, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> 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".
>

Very, very interesting Jan-Erik. Thank you. That search came up with
a number of very interesting results.

Why can't Oracle and VSI publish something like this:

https://www.sciinc.com/remotedba/techinfo/articles/ui10a1.asp

Oracle had made a public commitment to port Rdb to Itanium, along with
detailed timelines, even before they had working Alpha-based cross-compilers
for 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.
>

Given what you have said, I would hope so, but I am surprised about
the lack of a public statement along the lines of the above statement
for Itanium.

BTW, the slides you mentioned above for the port to Itanium can be
found here:

https://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/rdb/pdf/tech_archive/port_rdb_to_itanium.pdf

Also very interesting.

Simon.

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