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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/4/2021 5:18 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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 updating the woefully outdated version of MariaDB currently available for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?

If the application use standard SQL-92 then the database does
not really matter )as long you can get a driver for it).

But sometimes vendor specific SQL is used.

And in the Oracle DB world stored procedures are very popular
and stored procedures are not portable among databases.

Having all business logic in a few thousand Oracle stored
procedures is a vendor lock-in that matters.

Arne