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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/25/2021 12:00 PM, Richard Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> VSI has a PostgreSQL client that runs on OpenVMS and it talks to a
>> PostgreSQL database server hosted on Linux. Link here,
>> https://vmssoftware.com/products/libpq/
>>
>> Therefore a VMS application that addresses Rdb can be modified with
>> Sector7 tools to address a PostgreSQL database hosted on Linux, while
>> the application itself remains on OpenVMS.  For example, SQLMOD is
>> converted to C code that contains calls to the PostgreSQL client.

Why should the customer keep the rest of the application on VMS if you
have converted their unique selling point (Rdb) to a replacement running
on Linux ?

>
> I know that, but the text said:
>
> "Postgres or Oracle databases hosted on VMS or Linux servers"
>

It sounds like boilerplate marketing language to try and disguise the
face that this is really a port of the database to Linux (given the
current state of databases on VMS).

Simon.

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