But wouldn't the choice of staying in the ball game hinge on the financial
advantages of doing so? Maybe so many HP-3000 sites get all their work done
in Image and AllBase which is loads cheaper then Oracle, that no one was
buying Oracle or HP-3000's to run Oracle on. And I also think that there may
be alot more VMS shops then HP shops thus still mudding the water a bit. I
am not concerned one way or another whether HP uses Oracle or not. But let
us not get on a bandwagon and have HP spend money on something few people
want, when they could be spending it on improving the HP-3000 somewhere
else. (The question is, does HP use its savings for the HP-3000 or for other
platforms?)

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Vince Martyn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Oracle and OpenVMS
>
>
> Richard L Gambrell wrote;
> >While we're comparing platforms...Oracle continues to support VMS!
> >http://www.openvms.digital.com/solutions/oracle/oracle-letter.html
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been away for a couple of weeks and noticed Richard's mail in the
>
> archive.  I am happy to quote from the letter that Richard refers
> to.......
>
> "This commitment is reinforced at the highest levels of management in
> the"
> "two companies. Resources in the form of trained and dedicated
> personnel,"
> "system platforms and freely exchanged technical and business
> information"
> "are continually shared between ORACLE and COMPAQ. "
>
> Here lies the issue.  Compaq ARE prepared to stay in the ball game to
> have
> Oracle running on VMS (which I also support), but HP ARE NOT for MPE.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Vince, speaking for myself only.
>
>
>