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

[DeanW]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 3:05 PM John Dallman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
wrote:

> In article <sogpfo$18sn$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
> wrote:
>
> > At the application level, using standard SQL, does anyone even have to
> > know what database is running?
>
> Sadly, yes. SQL databases are not perfectly compatible:
>

That's the wonderful thing about standards(sic)- you have so many to choose
from.

My management wants off Oracle, badly (hint, I work for Oregon gov't, see
"Oracle vs. Oregon") - I have to constantly explain to management that the
vendor specific features that previous generations of developers have taken
advantage of over the past 20+ years will not be cheap or easy to unravel.
Not just SQL dialect but how the security model is set up, which would take
a while to unravel and replicate; it'd be easier to start from scratch and
do a data migration. at the end, but that takes selling stakeholders on
more work than anyone thinks they want to engage in.