[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Greg Tinkler]

> 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

SORRY WHAT!!! No they where not.  
Yes, they where in the process of porting Rdb on to other platforms, which was the correct business thing to do.  At the time was very much looking forward to it, and that it would help drive the OpenVMS sales...

As a group they where collateral damage of the decision by Palmer, and nothing they had a choice in.

The fact that the Rdb group still exists after such a long time is incredible, and due in part that they where probably the best engineering team in Digital at the time, and some of that skill has been used in the main Oracle RDMS toolset...

What we need to focus on now is getting OpenVMS back to where it should be, a fully 64 bit premier secure OS.

OpenVMS floundering has a lot more to do with the lack of engineering foresight and skill over the last 30 years, driven by commercial interests that did not understand the product and wanting to keep the cost low.

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