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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/4/2021 4:34 PM, DeanW wrote:
> 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 updating the woefully outdated version of MariaDB currently available for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.

I am not so sure.

Oracle is making a ton of money on Oracle DB. And relative few customers
are migrating away from Oracle DB.

But very few is migrating to or starting new from scratch on Oracle DB.
When they have the choice they go for more low cost options.

And migrating from Oracle DB on Linux to Oracle DB on VMS would probably
be a hard sell.

> Don't hold your breath waiting for that;

That would be unwise.

:-)

> My current preference would be:
> * VMS (implying modern networking, firewalling, logging to go with
> traditional clustering strengths)
> * WASD

If you need something VMSish then WASD would be a fine choice.

But if you need something industry standard then it is Apache or nginx.

> * OpenJDK.current-ish, Python, Ruby?

Hopefully VSI will get a OpenJDK 17 out soon as 8 is getting old (and I
do not see much point in 11 at this point in time).

Python exist.

Not sure about Ruby.

> * Postgres

Promised.

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

Most want bare metal hypervisor for VM's in production.

And k8s very Linux centric. Microsoft support k8s for Windows. VSI could
support k8s for VMS. But Linux market share is sky high.

Arne