Re: RDB Sold to Oracle! Damn!

>I for one believe that DEC Rdb is a powerful product with a great future.
>Consider: tools for performance monitoring, fast backup/restore (> 50 GB/hour),
>partitioned tables and indices, rich standard SQL language, VLDB support now,
>multimedia support now,... Much of the functionality supported by DEC Rdb is
>not available in any other relational database. There is no need for people to
>migrate anywhere... (except to DEC Rdb :-)
>
>regards,
>
>Ian
>

Wonderful! But how do you explain what is going on in the trade press? It is somewhat difficult to establish a scenario where what I read and what you're saying are not in conflict.

I sincerely hope (pray) you are correct since we have just committed to a large Rdb effort on AXP in VMS. Let's hope Digital sheds some light on this soon.

Mike

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