[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-10-29 kl. 00:09, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 10/28/2020 2:23 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-10-28, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 
>> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if Rdb is already running on x86.
>>>
>>
>> If that had happened, I would have expected a major press release
>> from VSI by now. It would be a major step towards showing that VMS
>> is working on x86-64 VMS and would be excellent publicity for VSI.
> 
> Your expectations might not be the expectations of others.

Or in touch with reality.

I'm not sure that VMS has all the bits needed to run Rdb yet.
I'm confident that there is a close contact between VSI and
the Rdb group at Oracle. No need to shout out about that.
And I think that any customer that relies on this combo have
made sure that they know very well what is happening.

If mr Clubley knows or doesn't know is irrelevant, if he isn't a major
Rdb customer. But if he is, he would know.

> I didn't see VSI issuing any press releases when WASD was ported to x86 
> VMS.  Nor was I looking, so perhaps such do exist.

No, it doesn't. WASD is "just" a third part open source "thing" that
doesn't generate any income for VSI or anyone else. Not much to
shout about.

> 
> Then there is the concept of waiting for the best time for such 
> information, when it will have the best effect.
> 
>