[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-28, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> 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. 
>

In that case, it's even _more_ important for VSI to show that Rdb
will be ported to x86-64 VMS and to let _all_ customers, not only
the Rdb customers know that.

Simon.

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