Re: database market share 2003

From: Larry <Larry_at_nospam.net>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 00:51:41 GMT
Message-ID: <xkvuc.14897$DC1.3448131@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>

Daniel,

What was your motivation in making the statement that you have never seen DB2 on Windows? You know the answer. You were trying to disparage DB2's presence in the distributed marketplace. And distributed means not only Windows ... but UNIX also. That's why I answered your statement with a personal experience with UNIX. There are pleny of customers who run DB2 on UNIX ... who don't want to run DB2 (or any rdbms) on Windows.

Larry Edelstein

Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Larry wrote:
>

>> 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

>
>
> And I wouldn't begin to disagree with you. Of course we both know
> that Solaris is not Windows and that what I wrote was:
>
> "I've yet to run into a single instance of DB2 on Windows ... or for
> that matter DB2 on non-IBM hardware"
>
> Which part of my use of the word Windows made both you and Mark
> immediately run out and decide to talk about Solaris rather than
> address the reference to Windows? ... I know ... and I'm sorry I
> added the second part of the sentence. But while your experience
> may be valid in the NY Metro area ... it is not my experience
> from any site I am aware of on the West Coast.
>
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