Re: Another License Review

From: Dave Herring <gdherri_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:02:24 -0500
Message-ID: <CAFN=diDqE17P+pXrsKe+FG85yQFfcaeZ6dNkoUcAc_qrQMonWQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



I'll 3rd that. I loved DCL.

Dave

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Reen, Elizabeth <elizabeth.reen_at_citi.com> wrote:

> Yup, lived through that too. It was a shame. DEC had the best hardware
> and software at the time. RAC is based on VMS clustering. WNT was to VMS
> what HAL was to IBM.
>
>
> Liz
>
> Elizabeth Reen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
> On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 5:02 PM
> To: Dave Herring
> Cc: ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Another License Review
>
> On 11/01/2017 04:15 PM, Dave Herring wrote:
>
> > I'm now finally involved with a client who has gone down this road and
> > Oracle lost the discussion. Of course legally I can neither confirm
> > nor deny how many millions were involved in the ULA that was cancelled
> > along with neither confirming nor denying any outright effort to move
> > to a different vendor. :-)
>
> Hi Dave,
> I have seen this before. Once upon a time, in a state far, far away,
> called Massachusetts, there used to be a great company with excellent
> mid-range systems, running an excellent OS called VMS. VMS 4.x was very
> open. There was even a published book with the source code for the OS.
> The systems were reasonably priced and all was well. And then the company
> became more closed and greedy. License costs for VMS went sky high, no more
> source code and there were shenanigans with VAXBI bus, a proprietary
> version of VME bus and also an attempt of creating a proprietary version of
> SCSI bus in VAX 4000. Eventually people grew tired and stopped buying it.
> Once mighty company, second only to IBM, collapsed in a few months, was
> bought by Compaq, which was later acquired by HP. HP has the Midas touch:
> it turns everything into a
> muffler: Polyserve, Compaq, DEC, they destroyed everything they touch.
> Long story short, market can cut every company down to the proper size,
> even Oracle.
> Regards
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Tel: (347) 321-1217
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Dave

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