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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 10/12/22 17:40, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

And the alternative is to sit around and wait until someone pulls
the rug out from under your operation.  How much of this do VMS
people need to see before they start planning ahead?

bill