Re: DB2 vs. Oracle8i: Total Cost of Ownership

nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) writes:

> On 22 Feb 2001 01:30:49 GMT, CSC <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:
>
> >Who Is Low-Cost Database Leader?
> >
> >http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/B948050CEF618EA8852569F30062847D
> >
>
> Obviously this didn't take into account the small army of COBOL
> programmers and OS390 tuners it takes to extract an ounce of
> performance or output out of that thing...
>
> :-)

Funny thing is, OS/390 is conspicious by its absense in the quoted article :-)

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