[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 10/28/2020 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Now that's rather funny.  Nice joke.

Anybody that could have moved from VMS easily is in most cases long gone.

Anybody so locked into VMS will be happy to see x86 VMS.

> 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.

Perhaps you revisit Mark Daniel's short write-up on the port of WASD to 
x86 VMS V9.0, which used cross compilers.  Somehow, I've got to think 
that x86 VMS V9.2 will be much easier to use.

> 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 ?

Perhaps define just who those people are ?????

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

When the port was finished ?????


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