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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mailman.0.1638653703.16371.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
DeanW <dean.woodward at gmail.com> writes: 

> 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. 

Presumably it will have similar licensing to what it has now.

> > 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 updating the woefully outdated version of MariaDB currently available for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.

Although I knew of some, there weren't that many Oracle Classic 
installations under VMS even when VMS looked to have a long lifetime.  
And VMS people are much more comfortable with Rdb (which is more VMS 
like).  At the application level, using standard SQL, does anyone even 
have to know what database is running?