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

[Richard Murphy]

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

^ That's badly worded!  The option for Postgres is only for Linux.

i.e. The options are:
- Rdb, migrate database to Postgres on Linux
   - Application can stay on VMS using the VSI Postgres Client (fastest solution)
   - or Application can migrate to Linux (obviously takes longer).

- Rdb, migrate database to Oracle Classic hosted on Linux or VMS
   - but Oracle Classic for VMS is going away, no one would do this now

- Oracle Classic, migrate database to Postgres on Linux
   - Application can stay on VMS using the VSI Postgres Client (fastest solution)
   - or Application can migrate to Linux (obviously takes longer).

There is not a version of Postgres database server for OpenVMS and I believe there cannot ever be due to some Postgres internals complexities.

Hope this clarifies.

Those actively migrating to Postgres are clearly skeptical about a committed port of Rdb for x86.