Re: feature & performance comparison

Jim,

The other thing you have to realize is that the RS/6K-AIX within IBM ... although it will run DB2 just fine ... is interested in selling RS/6K-AIX ... although DB2 is owned by the same company. The RS/6K-AIX folks are also trying to demonstrate that their solution is open and can run other dbms very nicely. Just like DB2 has endeavored in the past to demonstrate that it can run just fine on platforms other than AIX (e.g. NT, Solaris). This is the environment that is necessary in order to have a successfuly company (IBM) with many different "open" lines of business. Each is motivated/incented to "sell" their wares independently, even though great pains are made to ensure that if the customer chooses, he/she can run an complete IBM solution and not only will it be completely integrated, but it will run well.

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Running a benchmark is an expensive and time consuming task. Also you think
> about whom you comepte with. AIX is competing against Sun. And on Sun Oracle
> has higher market share. Running the benchmark on DB2 would have been good for
> DB2 but not efficient marketing for AIX because less Sun customers could relate
> to numbers. When you make comparisons you try to keep all variables stable
> except for the one you compare.
> For AIX the competitor is Sun and not Oracle.
>
> Cheers
> Serge
Received on Fri Jun 08 2001 - 07:40:52 CDT