Re: feature & performance comparison

Flame war brewing.
I did notice on the Oracle site an article stating that IBM showed off their new servers by using Oracle to get some great tpc-c benchmark numbers. The article goes on to wonder why they did not use DB2 (fair question).

Draw your own conclusions.
Jim

"swp" <DSAsteve_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:a59bd1d2.0106071150.4cca1d15_at_posting.google.com...
> I am posting this to both the Oracle and DB2 newsgroups in the hopes
> that I will get a better set of answers.
>
> I would like to see a comparison of features that are in Oracle 9i and
> the latest version of DB2. I have heard that DB2 is blowing Oracle
> away right now, at least until the middle/end of summer. [I can't
> remember where I read that review.] An objective comparison by an
> independent third party would be best, of course. Or if anyone out
> there has already done one for themselves that would be appreciated as
> well. Just a comparison of the features, not what they can or should
> be used to do or when or under what circumstances ~ that leads to
> individual opinion creeping in too much.
>
> I would also like a performance comparison of the two. How they stack
> on up similar machines with similar user loads across a wide variety
> of platforms. I am sure that someone has already done this, perhaps
> the Gartner Group, but I cannot find an honest "apples to apples"
> comparison anywhere.
>
> TIA,
>
> swp
Received on Thu Jun 07 2001 - 19:58:48 CDT