Re: UNIX vs VMS

>How do you define primary port? Oracle doesn't use that
>terminology when deciding to which platforms they port. OpenVMS
>Alpha *and* OpenVMS VAX are both tier-one, enterprise ports for
>Oracle.

I was told that VMS was recently moved to Tier-two. If I'm wrong I stand corrected.

>Because Oracle changed their engineering platform a year ago from
>OpenVMS to UNIX, the ports to OpenVMS have taken longer than the
>ports to UNIX.
 

Oracle started moving off VMS back in 1990. They went to Sequent and SUN for primary development as far as I know. Like any company they could not change overnight.
>Oracle plans to bring the porting schedule for OpenVMS to be
>closer to their UNIX ports this spring.

Again this is not what I'm hearing. VMS will be behind Unix and about the same time as NT. You may have better sources than I do though. I just pick up the gossip off CompuServe and the Internet. Anyway it all comes down to money. VMS is a large installed base and will be around for a long time but it is a shrinking install base. VMS is a cash cow that is being harvested. Lets just say we agree to disagree.

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Paul Collins
DBA
DATASTORM Technologies