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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-26 00:20:42 +0000, Jan-Erik Søderholm said:

> Den 2021-01-26 kl. 01:09, skrev Dave Froble:
>> 
>> Yep, that's pretty much what I remember you writing, and for your 
>> customer, it is not a high cost.
>> 
>> But it can be a problem in other environments.
> 
> Sure. If you do not need Rdb and what it gives you, don't use it. As 
> has been demonstrated here, there are simpler tools that can be used 
> too.

Many of which are available at lower cost on other platforms, with 
lower costs of entry.

Which makes re-creating the sorts of production sites that many of us 
familiar with as much time capsules of the past as a templates for 
future deployments.

I've done a fair chunk of work with Oracle Rdb over the years. More 
recently, SQLite would suffice for many of those same database 
requirements.

Will an appreciable number of existing OpenVMS sites shift to newer 
tooling or newer alternatives? For a number of sites, not absent 
incentives. The adoption of changes for some sites might require the 
retirement of Oracle Classic for instance, or management working toward 
reducing reoccurring expenses longer-term. Or some will shift due to 
the appearance of competition, and which isn't the best time to start 
working on updates.

But then again, there's also a negligible number of new sites and 
significantly-new app deployments installing Oracle Rdb or Oracle 
Classic on OpenVMS.  But that new choice of OpenVMS is where VSI wants 
and needs to be, too.  x86-64 is part of that.


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