Re: IBM smokes Oracle for Windows 2000 certification

My answer is:

If you elect me to be the President, I will

* increase your salary by 28.2 %
* cut your income tax by 37.1 %
* gasoline will be distributed free of charge

Norris schrieb:

> http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/07/31.phtml
>
> IBM is the first database vendor certified on the Windows 2000 platform,
> edging Oracle and Microsoft for the designation.
>
> Certification means the IBM DB2 Universal Database has passed a
> controlled, independently verified testing process to assure maximum use
> of the Windows 2000 operating system. Customers will benefit from a more
> robust, self-repairing installation procedure, plus enhanced network
> security and accessibility.
>
> According to Gartner Group, using compliant Windows 2000 applications,
> customers can increase the stability of their systems and lower their cost
> of ownership.
>
> Further proof of IBM's database leadership over its competitors include:
>
> IBM continues to deliver industry leading technology on time or before
> schedule, at typically a third the price of Oracle's database.
>
> IBM, Intel and Microsoft recently announced the world's fastest server,
> recording performance levels that triple the results of Oracle running on
> a Sun Microsystems cluster, at one-third the price. IBM Netfinity and DB2
> Universal Database, Intel Pentium III Xeon(TM) Processors, and Microsoft's
> Windows 2000 Delivered 440,879 Transactions Per Minute.
>
> DB2 Universal Database integrates breakthrough technologies not found in
> Oracle's standard packages. These include integrated XML capabilities for
> advanced business-to-business transactions, advanced search functionality
> for high-speed text searches (as much as 10 times faster than traditional
> databases), and the first implementation of the industry's new SQL
> standard for improved development cycles by as much as 40 percent.
>
> IBM now has more than 10,000 business partners and 6,500 applications
> built on DB2. In the past year, leading application developers !X
> including Siebel, SAP, i2, Ariba and PeopleSoft !X have chosen DB2 over
> Oracle as their standard software development platform.
>
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Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT