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

Mark Townsend wrote:

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> What's the rationale behind IBM WE being exactly the same functionality as
> IBM EE, but less in price ? Intelligence test for customers ?

Workgroup Edition charges by user, and lacks DRDA requestor function (you need to install DB2 Connect on top of it to get to DB2 on the 390 or AS/400).

Enterprise Edition and Extended - EE charge by the number of processors only. The number of users is not a factor in the price. There is no additional charge for the speed of the processor, so customers can move their licenses to faster processors without having to incur additional charges for the software. Your Socratic method has taken you far Mark - you might be ready to write the DB2 Certification exams - an excellent way to spice up any resume in case those press rumours of Oracle cutbacks are true :) Received on Mon May 21 2001 - 10:22:49 CDT