[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[John Dallman]

In article <rnccp3$ocd$1 at dont-email.me>,
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:

> 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!

At the time, they were quite friendly with HP, and they were solidly
focused on databases. 

Nowadays, cloud services are the hot thing within Oracle, and VMS is in
the hands of a small company, rather than HP. Oracle don't like HP, but
they have to take some notice of them. 

John