[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Richard Maher]

On 27/07/2022 1:50 pm, Greg Tinkler wrote:
>> And selling cheap is not Larry's MO.
> Buying cheap is... Rdb cost Oracle $US108M, which was made back from
> license charges in the first 12 months! The sale was inked 29 years
> ago (1993), and went through in 1994.  Such a sad time at Digital,
> the 1993 recommendation to the board was for Digital to become a
> software company with Rdb as the center piece, this was rejected as
> Rdb had already been sold.  Mumble!
> 
> Oh well, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for OpenVMS.
> 
> gt

Don't forget that *all* the Rdb "engineers" were gloating about leaving 
VMS and going to Windows :-(

Sadly those assassins have eked out a living watching Rdb/VMS flounder