Re: DB2 or Oracle

From: Richard <stuppiddickhead_at_postmaster.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:39:58 +0100
Message-ID: <3D7C423E.8060500@postmaster.co.uk>

Nuno Souto wrote:
> Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<3D7B7663.4070909_at_ca.ibm.com>...
>

>>Hmm, mainframes don't count BUT evil DB2 unses a different codebase 
>>there, shame on them an hence don't buy it for the other platforms..
>>Do I sense schizophrenia by competitive marketing here????

>
> You may recall more than a year ago I was vilified for stating as
> a fact what is now recognized as truth. Back then, I was the bad boy.
> Now, it's "of course".
>
> BTW, I never said DB2 is "evil", it's your statement not mine.
>
> What I said back then (and everyone made a tremendous effort to
> discredit me) was that the codebase for zSeries and AS400 is NOT
> the same as for the others. And therefore IBM cannot claim,
> like they did back then, that there was only one codebase
> for DB2. It's bull, always was.

This is an interesting discovery. I've certainly heard the "same code" mantra a thousand times. Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 01:39:58 CDT