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

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Jan 25 13:45:10 EST 2021


On 2021-01-25, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, I know about Sector7 and the help they can provide to people who
have decided to move off VMS.

> 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.
>

Why are VSI working with them on apparently moving _Rdb_ customers
instead of just Oracle Classic ? There's a confirmed Rdb solution coming
along for x86-64 VMS (although you wouldn't know it from the VSI website.)

> 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.
>

Read the bit Arne quoted again. They are talking about helping to move
Rdb customers as part of this agreement.

Have Sector7 posted something incorrect or are VSI trying to go out
of business ?

Simon.

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