Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

From: <davidc_at_montagar.com>
Date: 23 Aug 2006 11:51:28 -0700
Message-ID: <1156359088.494356.107290@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Dave Froble wrote:
> Your problem is that you consider yourself locked into using Oracle.
> They know that you can run on Linux, probably cheaper than running on
> VMS, and that this will continue to appeal to you and they'll keep you
> as a customer. They don't give a damn about your desire to continue to
> run VMS. You need a non-Oracle option to possibly get their attention.

Exactly -- especially if your database needs can be met (if only barely!) by MySQL. Even MS SQL Server on a Windows box (which likely would be much cheaper than Oracle) and using unixODBC/freetds on OpenVMS to access it. Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:51:28 CDT