[Info-vax] [From VSI website] VSI Announces a Strategic Partnership with Sector 7
Jan-Erik Söderholm
jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Fri Jan 29 10:19:44 EST 2021
Den 2021-01-29 kl. 15:07, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2021-01-28, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2021-01-28 kl. 19:44, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>>
>>> So that leaves the obvious question, did the people who decided to move
>>> away from Rdb even know about the port of Rdb to x86-64 VMS ?
>>
>> Anyone using Rdb (having a contract) could ask Oracle. And I'm sure that
>> everyone where the future of Rdb on x86 really matters has done that.
>>
>> But then, Oracle are not known to make long time commitments of future
>> products until they are ready to ship. But I know that after the regular
>> techincal update days, you could book private talks to the Oracle mgr's
>> under NDA to ask your important questions.
>>
>> Anyone evaluating a port off VMS probably have other and larger issues
>> than the availability of Rdb on x86. Such as lack of personell knowing
>> VMS, one of the largest issues for the place I work at the moment.
>> Our VMS boxes runs perfectly well. They get good services from the
>> systems with fast respons times. There is a future by the x86 port.
>> Our VMS based system has a far lower cost then similar support systems
>> using other technologies or commersial offers.
>>
>> But, it is very hard to get proper personell to work with the systems.
>> *That* is THE major issue. Not anything technical. If I would leave the
>> whole production support will fall apart after while.
>>
>
> So your customer is currently suffering from a bus factor of 1.
>
> Their management should have done something about this before it got
> to that stage.
Has been like this since 2009. And I have explained that if I would
had been in their situation, I would had concidered myself as one
of the major risks around this system. There are some efforts done
this year to mittigate this, we'll see how that pans out.
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