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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Mimer SQL
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:42:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-06-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> Mimer SQL is currently *the* database server available for VMS x86-64.
>
> (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 ?

>
> ADO.NET (C#, VB.NET etc.)
> totally standard
> obviously not available on VMS
>

Interesting observation. I wonder why ? C# would be more useful than (say)
Rust for VMS.

Simon.

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