Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

From: Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:07:32 -0400
Message-ID: <QvOdnUSt9uwpXnHZnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@comcast.com>

Doug Phillips wrote:

> Sybrand Bakker wrote:
>

>>On 22 Aug 2006 21:08:06 -0700, nothome_at_spammers.are.scum (Malcolm
>>Dunnett) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've been told that the decision to kill Standard Edition
>>>for VMS is "not final". I would encourage anyone out there

<snip>
>
> I wonder what most Sybase customers did? Did they keep VMS and move
> data over to (something else)? Keep Sybase and leave VMS? How many kept
> VMS and moved to Oracle? How many times will a customer get burned ---
> incurring major conversion costs because of OpenVMS --- before moving
> to a more reliable supplier.
>

My last employer used Sybase. After Sybase dropped support for VMS (31-DEC-2001) IIRC, we just went right on running it. I had an AlphaServer 4100 and an AlphaServer 2000 running VMS 6.2-1H3 and Sybase.   One ran the marketing database and the other one served customer "imprints" (typesetting language for customers business cards, letterheads, checks, etc.) It would have cost an arm and an leg to convert to just about anything else so they just ran the old stuff forever. The company has since been acquired and I believe the new owner trashed all that stuff and used their own apps. Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 16:07:32 CDT