"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> schreef in bericht
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> Larry allegedly said,on my timestamp of 5/06/2004 9:09 AM:
>
> > Precisely! The case is made that different code bases is actually
> > better! You've got to have different exploitative code on each platform.
>
> Is it better really? I'd hate to have to write ANYTHING for a "same
> code base" product that needs this:
> https://aurora.vcu.edu/db2help/db2c0/frame3.htm#db2c024
> for people to be able to use it in each platform.
>
> The same crap for Oracle would be resumed in one (1) sentence:
> Oracle works EXATLY and PRECISELY the same REGARDLESS of what
> platform you run it on.
>
Have you ever used Oracle on OS/390?
I wouldn't say it works EXACTLY and PRECISELY the same there.
Oracle on OS/390 comes with quite a few manuals specific for that
environment, which wouldn't be necessary for a product that doesn't care on
which platform it is executed.
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 09:31:34 CDT
