Re: RDB Sold to Oracle! Damn!
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 18:29:20 PDT
Message-ID: <340fk7$23n_at_news.onramp.net>
In article <33srej$ocd_at_info.census.gov>, <tompenn_at_info.census.gov> writes:
> 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.
"CLEARLY inferior" how? Rdb outperforms Oracle. DEC, BTW, has completed the port to OSF/1. Received on Wed Aug 31 1994 - 03:29:20 CEST