[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Denys Beauchemin]

On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 1:13:11 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/3/2023 2:00 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: 
> > On 2/3/23 12:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >> On 2/3/2023 12:54 PM, John Dallman wrote: 
> >>> In article <trj153$1epoa$1... at dont-email.me>, ar... at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj) 
> >>> wrote: 
> >>>> Either "enterprise database on OpenVMS" means "PostgreSQL client on 
> >>>> OpenVMS accessing PostgreSQL server on Linux" or he believes 
> >>>> PostgreSQL server on VMS will show up. 
> >>> 
> >>> It is possible for organisations other than VSI to port software. 
> >> 
> >> That is in theory a possibility as well. 
> >> 
> >> I am very skeptical about that being the case here. 
> >> 
> >> I cannot see the PostgreSQL open source community 
> >> spend time on a VMS port. 
> >> 
> >> The VMS port depend on the SSIO thing that VSI will 
> >> need to provide. 
> > 
> > I believe VSI has already provided that.  EDB seems to focus on 
> > migrating people from Oracle to PostgreSQL and claims to offer an 
> > "Oracle-compatible" version of PostgreSQL.  The relatively small number 
> > of people running Oracle Classic on VMS who are currently up a creek 
> > might be an interesting market for a smaller company even though they 
> > aren't interesting to Oracle. Jan Karremans, according to his LinkedIn 
> > profile, is a member of the OpenVMS Community there, so he's at least 
> > heard of it.
> EDB provides support for PostgreSQL, enterprise tooling for PostgreSQL 
> etc. and is *the* company in the PostgreSQL commercial support market. 
> The biggest criticism of them is that they are expensive. I believe 
> they have around 1200 employees. 
> 
> And they are HQed in MA so close to VSI. 
> 
> Certainly relevant company. 
> 
> I am still skeptical about them doing a port independently of VSI. 
> 
> Arne
Sector7 worked with VSI a couple years ago to expand the Postgres client on VMS.  We have a tool that converts Rdb SQLMODs to Oracle procedures and we added the capability to support Postgres also.  We migrated IKEA's SQLMODs for Rdb to access Postgres, with the application running on OpenVMS and the Postgres server running on a Linux server.  They deployed this to their 400+ stores around the world and it has been running for a few years.  They also got a nice performance boost.

This was to the open-source Postgres, not the EDB version.