[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-11-15 kl. 03:55, skrev Robert A. Brooks:
> On 11/14/2022 9:16 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> For historical purposes, before it was sold to Oracle, I believe the Rdb 
>> runtime was included with the OpenVMS distribution.
>>
>> Can't remember what licensing terms were.
> 
> Yeah, which is why various layered products (the defragger, DEC/EDI, CDD+, 
> etc...) used Rdb as their database.
> 
> Rdb RTO was part of all of the NAS license packages in the early-to-mid-90's
> 

Right. The VMS pre-compilers was missing. And no interactive SQL interface.

We developed a PC Windows frontend that used SQL/Services that gave us
all interactive SQL functions (well, not the HELP...).

So we used that to create our databases for our VB6 applications
on our Rdb-RTO installation (MV-3100/90 at that time and Rdb 4.x).

Actually made a presentation on a Swedish Decus meeting on that...

According to Oracle Rdb support, we were among the first world-wide
to write PC/Windows applications using the DLL's (at that time
undocumented) to wrote VB6 applications with Rdb backend.
This was before ODBC had been released.
Sold a copy of our VB6/Rdb interface to a guy in US (or Canada).

Fun times! :-)