Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply <helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:11:49 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <ed10cl$96v$4@online.de>

In article <o92dnYifoavTzm7ZnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d_at_libcom.com>, Dave Froble <davef_at_tsoft-inc.com> writes:

> I believe that selling RDB was one of DEC's biggest mistakes. With the
> prices DEC had for RDB, they could be very price competitive with Oracle
> on other platforms, or, force Oracle into a price war.
>
> DEC didn't need Oracle classic on VMS nearly as much as Oracle needed
> the price of RDB raised, by a factor of 5 if I remember correctly.

I think the argument was that if Rdb remained with DEC, Oracle wouldn't offer Oracle for VMS, giving people (who wanted to run Oracle) a reason not to use VMS. Whether would have done more harm than good (to DEC) I don't know.

For what it's worth, Rdb continues to be developed, enhanced, have bugs fixed, new features added etc. Received on Tue Aug 29 2006 - 04:11:49 CDT