[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 1:37 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-01-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> 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

s/face/fact/

>> current state of databases on VMS).
>
> I find it hard to see where that boilerplate marketing language
> should come from.
>
> It has never been true. And I don't think it has ever been claimed
> to be true.
>

Well, the Oracle bit is technically true (at least for the very near
future) but no-one is going to be porting to Oracle Classic on VMS,
which makes this in reality a port of the VMS databases to Linux.

Simon.

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