Re: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Glenn Hoffman wrote:
>
> In <5pdlbr$dos$1_at_news.kth.se>, f90-ogi_at_nada.kth.se (Otto Giesenfeld) writes:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I was a bit astonished to hear an IBM salesperson tell me how
> >low the prices for DB2 are set. For unix and NT it seems that
> >licenses are approximately _one_tenth_ of Oracle Enterprise
> >Server pricing. Informix is more or less on par with Oracle,
> >I think.
> >
> >I somehow thought that IBM played in the same division as
> >Oracle and Informix, but this makes me wonder. Can I
> >expect good reliability, performance, and scalability
> >from DB2 for unix, or is it only an alternative for
> >those who would be satisfied with MS SQL Server or
> >Oracle Workgroup Server?
> >
>
> We are running DB/2 for OS/2 here at the State of Georgia
> and are very happy with it.
>
> We have sevaral apps running on it, and have some rather big tables.
> Performance is excellant.
>
> The NT and Unix versions share much of the same code as the OS/2 versions
> and is very similair to the mainframe DB/2
>
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> Glenn Hoffman cws_at_atlanta.com voice: 770-795-0155
> Team OS/2 fax: 770-795-0355
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Yeah, I looked at the NT version just to see what the buzz is all about. The interface sucks! Gives me the creeps.

Did they send the DB2 team for NT to a special school to make the interface
as gawd-awful as it is? It is absolutely the most bland, boring, yucky interface out there. Don't know about the performance, but it reminds me
of the old IBM look-and-feel: I Build Mediocrity. ALL the windows are in
black-n-white! No color... Amazing... Flat-files would be a better choice.
:-)

Another interesting point. The on-line documentation is characteristically
IBM, and you have to fire up each help file separately. This is majorly sucky software. Informix has nothing to worry about with the NT version.
You can put Visual Aged for Java in this catagory too. Yech!

:-)

Just my penny...

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