Re: Why SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebels Move from Oracle to DB2 ?

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:53:25 -0500
Message-ID: <3C3D9CD5.9649487@ca.ibm.com>

DB2 is the same on all Unixes, Windows and OS/2. It is 100% different server side code on OS/390 and AS/400. I am not aware of an IBM site claiming differenly (only of competitors claiming that IBM claims).

To put things into relation:
Oracle doesn't run on AS/400 (naturally since the OS/400 and DB2 are pretty much the same).
Oracle practically has no presence on the 390. The code has to be different to succeed on a mainframe. Its a different platform from UNIX, intel servers,
or rather vice-versa, to get the timeline right.

Practically evdryone running Oracle's shared codebase would do just the same on DB2: one codebase.

I agree with Mark that this thread probably has exceeded its life expectancy. And I will yield by not posting further comments regarding this thread.

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 UDB SQL Compiler Development
IBM Software Lab, Canada

Received on Thu Jan 10 2002 - 07:53:25 CST