Re: database market share 2003

From: Larry <Larry_at_nospam.net>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:09:38 GMT
Message-ID: <CYsuc.10944$DC1.3024411@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>

And I can say that across about half a dozen customers that I have in the NY Metro area, I have two that are using DB2 on Solaris (and in both cases, they did not have DB2 on any other platform prior to Solaris).

Larry Edelstein

Mark A wrote:

>>I've yet to run into a single instance of DB2 on Windows ... or for
>>that matter DB2 on non-IBM hardware. Do they exist? Of course. But
>>they are few and far between. And almost all in companies that have
>>DB2 on an IBM platform already.
>>-- 
>>Daniel Morgan

>
>
> This is complete nonsense. Unless you consider all IBM compatible PC servers
> to be IBM's (which of course is not the case).
>
> DB2 UNIX runs on HP/UX and Sun Solaris. Many large companies run on these
> two non-IBM hardware platforms. I personally have used DB2 on Solaris quite
> a few time.
>
>
Received on Sun May 30 2004 - 17:09:38 CDT