[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-29, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <rnccve$ocd$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> 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.
>
> Running somewhere internally.  Obviously, a press release creates 
> expectations and questions.  These have to be thought about before doing 
> a press release.
>

Do you _know_ that Rdb on x86-64 VMS is running internally or is that
just a guess based on no evidence ?

We are currently 6 years into a port which was originally promised
to be completed 2-3 years ago. VSI have got to start doing _something_
to keep customer interest or people are going to start drifting away
regardless of how much they would like to run applications on x86-64 VMS.

We also don't know if the current schedule is accurate or if it
is going to slip further (through _no_ fault of the VSI engineers,
I would like to make clear).

And before _everyone_ jumps on me for saying that, consider this:

How much time elapsed between when the initial first boot contest
on x86-64 was announced and when the first boot was finally achieved ?

VSI clearly believed at the time they were very close to first boot
in order to announce the initial first boot contest.

> Certainly one wouldn't do a press release before the product is 
> complete.
>

When the Rdb port to Itanium was done, there was an expected porting
schedule published even before Oracle had access to the cross-compilers.

Simon.

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