In article <38B42FDC.CE7FD167_at_us.ibm.com>,
Larry Edelstein <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
> To answer your question, Oracle had both DB2 UDB and Informix as real
> competition prior to SQL Server 7. And as of now, if you ask any of
the
> major consulting firms like Gartner, Meta, Giga or if you cruise the
press,
> you will find that DB2 UDB is still "real" competition for Oracle ...
very
> real.
>
Too bad the best product never wins. I think DB2 has the best ANSI 92
implementation and probably is the most tunable. When it comes to
features I think DB2 may have the edge slightly over Oracle and when it
comes to pricing DB2 certainly does pretty well too. Of course based on
your email you wouldnt have any bias? I havent used it very much but
right now I am a fortune 100 company that has everything from Teradata
to UDB. I am intrested to see what 6.1 can do. Does the Mainframe
have pretty much the same functionality now?
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