Re: Why doesn't Oracle care about Linux as IBM does?

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:07:31 -0400
Message-ID: <3B780950.49309028@ca.ibm.com>

DB2 on Distributed Platforms and DB2 for OS/390 are different codebases. I'm not aware of anyone attempting to hide that fact.

DB2 does not require special clustering software which is why it does not have the problems you refer to on XP and 2000 (See the famous TPC-C result Larry loves to cite running 32 physical nodes on W2k).

Requiring clustering software puts limits on scalability: Except for AIX HACMP which supports 32nodes, typically only between 4 and 8 nodes are supported today on the common platforms (Linux, Sun, HP, Windows).

By contrast DB2 runs in production with over 300 physical nodes on AIX.

Cheers
Serge Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 12:07:31 CDT