[Info-vax] VSI webinar June 6th

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/10/2024 9:57 AM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Simon Clubley schrieb am 10.05.2024 um 14:33:
>> PS: I wonder if we will find out how the Rdb port is coming along.
> 
> Oracle is not presenting in this webinar. They are the only party to 
> reliably comment on this topic.

I have not seen anything newer than what Oracle said in October:

<quote>
ORACLE : VMS PRODUCT NEWS KEVIN DUFFY (SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE 
DEVELOPMENT) Kevin  gave  us  an  update  on  Oracle's  database 
products  for  VMS,  starting with  a  review  of  relations  with  VSI 
which  are  regular  and  multi-level:  daily contacts  between 
engineers,  management  meetings  every  two  months  and specific 
engineering meetings on x86 porting.
...
For  new  developments,  priority  is  given  to  Rdb  and  DBMS  kits 
for  x86.  The development environment is moving from VMS on Oracle 
VirtualBox (easier for  development  &  tests)  to  VMS  on  Oracle 
Linux  KVM  (OLVM,  selected  for production)   and   cross-compilers 
will   soon   be   replaced   by   native   VMS compilers.  Progress  is 
  illustrated  by  figures  on  testing  and  the  arrival  of  native 
compilers  enables  tests  to  be  extended. The  main  dev  compiler 
(Bliss)  has  just arrived  in  native  version.  DBMS  which  shares 
its  core  with  Rdb  is  advancing  at the same pace and may be 
released earlier.
Rdb  in  the  Oracle  cloud:  The  transition  to  Oracle  KVM  as  a 
hypervisor  will make  it  possible  to  run  VMS  &  Rdb  in  the 
Oracle  cloud.
...
The  licensing  principle  for  Rdb  on  x86  will  be  the  samealready 
  known  for Oracle  Enterprise  Edition,  with  a  core-factor  of 
0.5:  according  to  the formula "nb licenses = nb cores x core-factor".
...
Other Oracle licensing modes (such as named user) are maintained on x86. 
  Codasyl/DBMS is currently being ported..
...
There  are  currently  no  plans  for  a  "Free"  version  of  Rdb  for 
personal  &  free use (as exists for Oracle 23c, with limitations).
...
Roadmap  :  a  beta  kit  of  Rdb  on  x86  could  arrive  in  the  fi 
rst  part  of  2024  if porting problems are resolved. The same date 
will see a DMBS beta kit, but with greater probability.
</quote>

http://www.vmsgenerations.fr/wp-content/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/pdfjs/web/viewer.php?file=/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CR-rdv-17-oct-2023-EN.pdf

Which sounds OK, but "first  part  of  2024" is pretty close. :-)

Arne