Re: 2025 OpenVMS Malmö Bootcamp Agenda

On 3/25/2025 4:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

VSI has published that:
 https://events.vmssoftware.com/agenda-malm%C3%B6-2025
 A few items caught my attention:

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Mimer SQL on OpenVMS, Bengt Gunne
 Mimer SQL is the only database system in production on OpenVMS X86. In this talk we hear about the latest updates to the released version. This is followed by highlights of new features that will be released in the next major release and a peek at the roadmap.
...
Migration from Oracle Rdb to Mimer SQL, Karl-König Königsson
 Learn how to migrate from Oracle Rdb to Mimer SQL with minimal effort. Discover Mimer’s automated translator tool for schema, SQL dumps, and Embedded SQL in C, COBOL and FORTRAN, as well as Module SQL. This enables seamless application migration with little to no manual intervention as our tooling helps you through all the steps involved in migrating your database schema, data and application code.

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Given that we are still waiting for Rdb and MySQL/MariaDB for
VMS x86-64, then taking a look at Mimer makes a lot of sense.
Mimer does not have a high media profile - not in the general
IT industry and not in the VMS community.
But is is there and it is available for VMS x86-64. And it
supports a wide variety of access: embedded SQL, JDBC, ODBC.
I have covered it a few times:
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vmsdb.html#mimer
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vmsdbx.html#embsql
Product page is:
https://developer.mimer.com/products/product-overview/
Download page is:
https://developer.mimer.com/products/downloads/
And I really like to see OpenVMS listed as supported OS
at same level as Windows, Linux and macOS!
:-)
Arne