[Info-vax] What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[DeanW]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 8:50 PM Mike K. via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
wrote:

> While Oracle may be planning to port Rdb to x86 eventually, it's not there
> yet, and even when it comes, will not have any hobbyist option available to
> allow new users to get to know it. This needs to be fixed, either by
> beating Oracle with a clue stick until something happens (unlikely) or by
> updating the woefully outdated version of MariaDB currently available for
> VMS.


If you want adoption- and this will be unpopular here- skip RDB and port
the current generation mainstream Oracle DB. There's already a huge
installed base for that, having VMS under it could be a selling point.

Don't hold your breath waiting for that; Oracle is pushing appliance-like
setups with favorable licensing / usage conditions over BYOPlatform
solutions these days to further set the vendor lock-in hooks into their own
products.

My current preference would be:
* VMS (implying modern networking, firewalling, logging to go with
traditional clustering strengths)
* WASD
* OpenJDK.current-ish, Python, Ruby?
* Postgres

Cluster that across a couple separate data centers (pick one or more of
Tier 3, Google, AMS, or Azure) and... what's the hook to make people learn
VMS?

Maybe the killer VMS platform is a rock-solid K8S / VM hosting platform.

But where I am currently doesn't know how to do a rolling upgrade, and
hours of downtime doesn't seem to bother any of TPTB so...

Missing being able to swap things around on the fly just by changing
logical names though.