Re: RDB Sold to Oracle! Damn!
From: Thomas Pennington <tompenn_at_info.census.gov>
Date: 29 Aug 1994 10:30:43 -0400
Message-ID: <33srej$ocd_at_info.census.gov>
Date: 29 Aug 1994 10:30:43 -0400
Message-ID: <33srej$ocd_at_info.census.gov>
For those who hold out any long term hope of Rdb, consider that Oracle would be insane to sell 2 relational database products, particularly one which is CLEARLY inferior, runs only on 1 platform, and would require considerable effort to maintain. DEC never completed the port of Rdb, so I do not think Oracle or any other company will invest any substantail money into it. They will most likely offer a trade up deal like the PC vendors do, and Rdb will quietly go away. It could have been a great product, but DEC never fully committed the resources to it, so it never maintained competativness with the likes of Oracle and Sybase. Hope you don't have lots of add on products which use Rdb, it could be a difficult port.
-- | /\ |Tom Pennington tompenn_at_info.census.gov| | /\ / \ /\ |======================================| | /\ / \/ \/ \ |"Of all the things I have lost in my | |/ \/ / \ \| life, I miss my mind the most" |Received on Mon Aug 29 1994 - 16:30:43 CEST