[Info-vax] [From VSI website] VSI Announces a Strategic Partnership with Sector 7

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-25 14:09:37 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2021-01-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
>> WTF does "migrate Oracle Rdb to Postgres or Oracle databases hosted on 
>> VMS or Linux servers" mean?
>> 
>> PostgreSQL does not run on VMS and soon Pracle DB (Oracle Classic) will 
>> not run on VMS. Rdb is running on VMS but they talk about migrating off 
>> Rdb.
>> 
>> I am confused!!
> 
> Welcome to VSI marketing. :-( :-(
> 
> That Rdb comment needs clarifying or fixing PDQ!!!

That is a generic discussion of incrementally migrating data and/or 
apps off of OpenVMS, or of migrating customers off of OpenVMS entirely. 
Which is the business that Sector7 is in.

OpenVMS apps and environments can continue to work, as Sector7 has 
tools and apps and frameworks that allow that app re-hosting onto 
Linux, and with relatively fewer app modifications required; with an 
easier re-hosting path.

Think of this as an OpenVMS app container running on a Linux host or 
Linux guest, and the tooling and services to get your app into that 
container, and you'll have the general idea of what Sector7 offers.

Existing OpenVMS Oracle Classic customers are headed for a migration, 
and each site will be deciding on the scale of and the platform and app 
targets of that migration.

That migration might target OpenVMS x86-64 and Oracle Rdb, or to 
MariaDB, MIMER, maybe SQLite, etc., on OpenVMS.

Or that migration might be data re-hosted to Linux and remotely 
accessed on PostgreSQL or Oracle Classic or another database located 
else-platform.

Or that migration might be an incremental platform port of data and 
apps to Linux.

Etc.

TL;DR: VSI would like to keep those customers with OpenVMS apps and 
Oracle Classic dependencies on OpenVMS, and to preferably re-host them 
onto OpenVMS x86-64.  Sector7 would like to acquire and re-host those 
customers.

Some high-level reading on Sector7:
https://openvms-migration.com/services/Sector7-Engagement.pdf
https://www.salemautomation.com/openvms-migration
etc.

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