Re: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Tim Schaefer <tschaefe_at_mindspring.com> wrote:

>Yeah, I looked at the NT version just to see what the buzz is all about.
>The interface sucks! Gives me the creeps.

        DB/2 has a good interface. It has special administrative tools for defining and creating databases, odbc administration, and client administration.

>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.

        I don't know about you, but I only care that the interface is understandable, easy to use, and facilitates my productivity. Unlike, let's say, Oracles' interface for Netware.

>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.
>:-)

        The performance for DB/2 is great, but you don't have to take my word for it. Just download a free-trial of db2 from the ibm web site, http://www.software.ibm.com/db2.

>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.

        On install, db2 puts all of the on-line books in the start menu, so that you can select them by category. Once in any book, you can always search through the entire library of books for any particular topic, phrase, or keyword with one mouse-click or keystroke.

        Again, you have no reason to take my word for truth. Try it out for yourself for free. Then tell us what _you_ think.

	God bless,
	-Toby

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Toby Reyelts - gt1107a_at_prism.gatech.edu