Re: DB2 or Oracle

"Richard" <stuppiddickhead_at_postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message news:3D7C423E.8060500_at_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.

What difference does it make? Or rather what difference is it claimed to make.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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