Re: Good News for MS Windows users: Your favorite database is here..

The point is not so much that each edition exists everywhere as much as the fact that each edition offers compatible functionality. Can the same be said of Oracle? Is Oracle's Standard Edition functionally equivalent to the Enterprise Edition?

Darin McBride wrote:

> On Sun, 20 May 2001 19:13:21 GMT, Mark Townsend wrote:
>
> >in article 3B07F89F.E9DEBEAA_at_us.ibm.com, Larry at lsedels_at_us.ibm.com wrote
> >on 5/20/01 10:02 AM:
> >
> >> Another dimension to this argument is the notion of functional capabilities of
> >> our
> >> editions of
> >> DB2 on UNIX, Windows and OS/2. Precisely the same functional capability is
> >> offered in
> >> the
> >> four packages on these platforms: Personal Edition, Workgroup Edition,
> >> Enterprise
> >> Edition,
> >> Enterprise-Extended Edition. This is not the case for the "competition".
> >
> >Hmm - this is not exactly true at the current time - for instance, is the
> >Spatial Extender available on all platforms ? Are all the extenders that are
>
> Mark - the original claim seemed to be only for Unix, Windows, and OS/2. And
> it was only for the four UDB products themselves, not any add-ons. The only
> incorrect implication was that Personal Edition existed everywhere (it's only
> on OS/2, Windows, and Linux).
>
> >available on AIX and Windows 2000 also available on all other platforms
> >(Solaris, HPUX, WinNT, Linux, OS/390, AS/400) ? How about Data Warehouse
>
> OS/390 and AS/400 are not part of the original statement.
>
> >Manager ? Query Patroller ? How do things look for the DB2 UDB 'family of
> >products' on Dynix/PTX ? - One of those other acquisitions IBM promised to
> >look after when they bought it
  Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 16:49:59 CDT