[Info-vax] Information about RdbStar?

[levin]

I was one of the first people in RdbStar which eventually had about a hundred software
engineers.    So I am keenly aware of its history.   In point of fact I have a tower of DEC
tape cassettes that have the source code.   It's in my office.   The last physical remnence
of a project which cost around 130 million dollars.    I think I also have a functional spec
of the distributed database query compiler.

After years of growing pains integrating two organizations in Nashua N.H., and Colorado
Springs, we finally got our act together and were about a year from release, but that was when the
fiscal roof collapsed at Digital, and the project was downsized to an integration engine called DBI.

Ping me if you want more information.  






On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 3:42:46 PM UTC-4, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:40:35 PM UTC-4, Maury Markowitz wrote: 
> > I was putting together an article on TPC-C when one of the authors of the original suite mentioned it was developed for something called RdbStar.
> I assume that Author was my (Valbonne) buddy Francois Raab? 
> He 'owns' TPC-C' and was heavily involved with the RDB team back then. 
> I thought Jim Starkey was involved (of Datatrieve fame for the Digital folks), but not sure anymore.
> > Does anyone here have any materials on RdBStar from the period when it was being developed?
> I suspect all relevant documents were Digital internal use only at the time. 
> 
> fwiw, 
> Hein