[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Neil Rieck]

On Oct 25, 4:54 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:

>
> And these 150,000 customers would remain with Oracle as DB engine when
> they move from VMS to some other OS.  Oracle wants to keep those
> customers and will be as enthousiastic as possible to retain them.
>
> This is especially true of RDB customers who are facing an eventual move
>  off Rdb when they move away from VMS, so Oracle wants to have very
> good, enthousiastic and positive relationship with them te ensure
> highest ratio of customers who go from Rdb to Oracle instead of another
> DB engine.
>

Lets remember that Oracle-RDB allows linkage to DEC languages (BASIC,
COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, etc.) while Oracle-DB only allows linkage to C/C
++. (I am ignoring ODBC, JDBC and SQL  for the moment). This means it
may never be possible to migrate certain applications (think bank and
stock-exchange applications) away from Oracle-RDB without a major
inconvenience to the customer.

NSR