[Info-vax] VMS Software: New US Mailing Address

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/12/2022 10:27 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 10/12/22 09:05, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> There's been no negative comments about Rdb recently, so I assume that
>> is still on course for release on x86-64 VMS. Of course, if Rdb wasn't
>> released for x86-64 VMS then that would be a very serious blow to VSI's
>> plans.
> 
> A database is the least serious of these problems.  VSI could easily
> (well, maybe  not easily) decide that Postgres was going to be the VMS
> database just like RDB was, at one time, a DEC product.  It is easily
> a suitable replacement for either Oracle or RDB.  Just suffers from NIH
> syndrome.

Databases are usually one of the most expensive pieces to
change.

Unless the client applications has been written specifically to
not be tied a specific database, then there are client application
changes.

There is the data conversion.

There is the OPS & DBA procedures and training.

And everything need to be tested.

Arne