[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/18/2023 12:45 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 10:33:50 PM UTC-4, bill wrote:
>> On 8/16/2023 9:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 8/16/2023 8:23 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 8/16/2023 4:21 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> With all that then I think the main missing piece must be Rdb.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure how that should be considered, since Rdb is not in VSI's hands.
>>>
>>> There will be a lot of customers waiting for it - not being able to
>>> start their migration until it at least is ready for test.
>>>
>>> They do not wait less because it is Oracle and not VSI.
>>>
>>> Obviously if they want to push for it they should push Oracle not VSI.
>>>
>> Just out of curiosity, what do you do if Oracle says "No"?
> 
> THEN YOU MAKE SURE SYNERGY PORTS THEIR DIBOL LANGUAGE ALONG WITH SQL CONNECT WHICH CONNECTS TO ORACLE

I certainly hope that Synergy port their DIBOL (DBL) to VMS x86-64.

But it is not really related to the question at hand.

If no Rdb then current Rdb users will have a problem.

But it is not a connectivity problem.

There are already ways to connect from almost any VMS
language to almost any database.

Arne