Re: Oracle and Digital drop Support of VAX/VMS post 1999.
Date: 1997/12/10
Message-ID: <01bd057a$85b013a0$c41247cc_at_merriam>#1/1
Digital has consistently said that they will support VMS "well into the
21st century". They'll have a lot of upset customers, third party vendors,
and analysts if they go back on that. I'd suggest checking the source of
the rumor, as well as the details. Its possible that one or more of the
older versions of VMS are being dropped from support (I'd suspect because
of the year 2000 problem, given the date/time you mention).
--
Bill Merriam, LAT Program Manager, Meridian Technology Corp.
LAT/ Windows-NT cross-network printing; Telnet-to-LAT, NetBIOS-to-LAT
http://www.meridian.com/superlat.html
David Jones <david_j.jones_at_virgin.net> wrote in article
<66hcba$kf4$1_at_nclient3-gui.server.virgin.net>...
> I have heard rumour that Oracle and Digital are informing customers that
> support of VAX/VMS will be dropped at 23:59 on 31st December 1999.
>
> Has anyone any more information on the matter?
>
> Is this Oracle ending support of the database on VAX/VMS?
>
> Is this Digital ending support on the operating system?
>
> Is it strictly VAX/VMS or VAX/OpenVMS and Alpha/OpenVMS also?
>
> What versions of the operating system?
>
> thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CET