[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 25, 3:54 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

You forget that Oracle purchased InnoDB, currently the only relational
engine for MySQL.  There was a severely limited length of time Oracle
agreed to allow InnoDB to be "free" for use with MySQL.  Rather than
do the intelligent thing and get PostgreSQL (already a fully
OpenSourced business class relational database and the foundation of
Informix) working with MySQL the powers that be at MySQL have embarked
on creating their own relational engine.  I'm pretty certain the first
few cuts at it will end up working like Windows Vista.

At some point in the very near future Oracle is going to squeeze that
orange.

A more interesting number to bring back from the event would be the
number of OpenVMS customers choosing to not run a single Oracle
product.  That gets to be a slippery slope since Oracle owns CDD and a
lot of shops have DECset.