Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

Malcolm Dunnett wrote:
> In article <44EC91D1.41927978_at_teksavvy.com>,
> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com> writes:
>
> >
> > If VMS management do not do something to keep Oracle on VMS and in fact
> > grow its presence on VMS, I think it may in fact signal the true end of
> > VMS. It will send a strong signal.
> >
>
> Well Oracle will be keeping Enterprise Edition on VMS ( at least for
> the time being ), although as usual the port lags far behind other
> platforms.
>
> > Remember that there is that suppposed 10 billion buck fund to help port
> > software. If HP isn't going to use any of it to help VMS, then it also
> > sends quite a strong signal about HP's intentions with reagrds to VMS.
>
> The fascinating thing is that there is an Oracle 10gR2 Standard
> Edition for Tru64 Unix. So an O/S that HP has declared as dead gets
> a port but an O/S HP says has a future doesn't. Hmmm...

Not only that, but gets released first. As of 18-Aug-2006 there is a free download of Oracle 10gR2 for Tru-64 while the VMS version is still not available as of 28-Aug-2006. Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 13:42:34 CDT