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

Rdb is another 'codebase' for Oracle. You must be joking! You know anything about DB2 competitive products. Obviously not, otherwise you wouldn't have crossposted this to half the Usenet.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Blair Kenneth Adamache" <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:3B07B83F.D4A05610_at_ca.ibm.com...
> DB2 is the same code base on all versions of Windows (95 through 2000),
 AIX,
> Solaris, HP-UX, NUMA-Q and OS/2. There are three other DB2 code bases
 (390, AS/400
> and VM/VSE). 4 code bases is not "zillions". Each RDBMS vendor has an
 additional
> code base kicking around (Oracle has RDB, Sybase has SQL Anywhere, and
 Microsoft has
> Access and Foxpro) - at least IBM has aligned DML across the platforms.
>
> Nuno Souto wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 May 2001 09:36:46 -0400, Blair Kenneth Adamache
> > <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > >merging object-relational features into a parallel relational database)
 mesh
> > >nicely with DB2's approach. It is our expectation that Informix
 releases under
> >
> > Yeah, they might eventually allow IBM to deliver one version of DB2,
> > instead of the zillion versions out there, one for each platform...
> >
> > <d&r>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
>
Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 08:50:51 CDT