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Same for Sybase's SQLAnywhere (aka ASA). Has nothing to do with ASE: Adaptive Server Enterprise (i.e. SQLServer)
-- Terry Dykstra Canadian Forest Oil Ltd. "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:tgfipvso620p53_at_beta-news.demon.nl...Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 13:38:28 CDT
> 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
> >
>
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