Re: Mimer SQL

On 6/23/2025 8:42 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-06-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Mimer SQL is currently *the* database server available for VMS x86-64.
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(we are still waiting for Oracle Rdb and MySQL/MariaDB)

 Given that the updated Rdb release date was originally ~18 months ago,
that is not good. Can anyone give an updated reason for the delay ?

The Rdb team gave some indications about the technical aspects of the
project in a presentation some months ago.
But in the end it is probably a resource allocation problem. If
Larry Ellison had called the relevant SVP 3 years ago and said
"I want Rdb on VMS x86-64 in 12 months - you hire 100 software
engineers, if that is not enough you hire a 100 more, if that
is not enough then 100 more, but get it done", then we would
have had Rdb by now. He did not.
(let us ignore the practicality that the Rdb team could
probably not use 300 software engineers)
Arne