Re: oracle 10.2 out on OpenVMS Itanium and where's 11g beta?

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 3 Oct 2006 05:13:13 -0700
Message-ID: <1159877593.275258.128900@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:42:40 -0700, hpuxrac wrote:
>
> > Sorry I don't recall the thread in depth but I thought someone recently
> > was looking for 10.2 on OpenVMS ... so maybe this fits their needs?
>
> Open..what? define/system/trans=concealed DEAD$OPERATING_SYSTEM TRUE
> It's a darned shame, but it's bye, bye VMS pie. Sad truth is that today,
> approximately a decade after the death of VMS, no Unix or or Linux system
> can do thing like mon io/item=queue or mon page. Don't even get me started
> about versioning integrated into the file system
>

First I never used VMS in my life so I have no stake in any positioning here.

But it's not exactly dead from my perspective if oracle is still issuing new releases of software for it.

They don't usually do that unless they see some kind of revenue stream involved. Received on Tue Oct 03 2006 - 07:13:13 CDT