Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

From: Malcolm Dunnett <nothome_at_spammers.are.scum>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 07:55:56 -0700
Message-ID: <PmoAQcz7FU1L@malvm9.mala.bc.ca>

In article <ecumc3$cs6$1_at_online.de>,

helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:

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> How much money and work would it be for you to move to Rdb?
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Rdb costs the same as Oracle Enterprise Edition, so there'd be no direct financial benefit to switching back to Rdb.

When I stopped running Rdb the SQLNet for Rdb product was pretty new and had some glitches in it, but assuming they're ironed out now I could probably convert to Rdb without too much technical difficulty. Unfortunately it would be cheaper and easier to move the Oracle Standard Edition database to a Unix/Linux platform. While I believe that VMS offers an excellent platform to host the database I doubt I could justify the cost of staying with it if that means having to move to Enterprise Edition or Rdb.

Just another "un-leveling" of the VMS playing field. Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 09:55:56 CDT