Re: database market share 2003

> You can't call the fact that I, personally, have never run into
> DB2 on Windows nonsense. And you sure can't dig your way out of it
> by making reference to HP and Sun hardware unless you are somehow
> equating Solaris with a Microsoft product.
>
> So I'll try the statement again ... I ... that means mean personally, in
> 35 years in this industry ... seen DB2 on Windows in any organization
> that didn't have DB2 also on another IBM platform such as a mainframe
> or AS400.
>
> I can not be wrong about my personal experience.
>
> If you wish to prove that my personal experience is somehow skewed and
> not representative of the database market as a whole ... then here's
> how you can do it.
>
> Publish official numbers showing the number of DB2 licenses, on MS
> Windows, that are in companies that are not also using DB2 on mainframes
> or AS400. Simple.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan

I didn't say anything about your "personal experience." I just said your comments are nonsense. If you prefer: "your [limited] experience is non-sense."

I have seen many DB2 installations on Windows. Since you live in Washington state, where there is an extreme MS bias, most companies use MS SQL Server on Windows. That combination is strong, but not quite as dominant in other parts of the country.

Excluding all companies that also run DB2 on OS/390 and AS/400 is quite restrictive. I believe that are over 2000 companies who use DB2 on IBM mainframes. The number of companies that run AS/400 (or I series) is in the tens of thousands, and DB2 comes with the OS.

So you seem to be excluding a huge percentage of the largest 5000 companies in the US (most of whom have at least one IBM mainframe running DB2 or an AS/400 which comes with DB2).

So your comments are ridiculous (again). Double-talk. Non-Sense. Received on Sun May 30 2004 - 19:39:54 CDT