Re: No future for DB2

"John Bailo" <jabailo_at_texeme.com> wrote in message news:54CdneG9vLihv3jfRVn-rw_at_speakeasy.net...
> rkusenet wrote:
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>> This article is very bleak about future of DB2. How credible is the
>> author. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1839681,00.asp
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> This guy sounds like a magazine troll.
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> The more I work with DB2, the more I appreciate its power.
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> Maybe the world is just starting to catch up with DB2.

Take it from comp.databases.informix, John, that the quality of the product is more-or-less immaterial.

My first love is Informix. I've administered DB2, SQL Server and Oracle and - no flames please, it's just an honest opinion - nothing comes close to Informix for its elegance, ease of administration and astonishing, leave-for-years, reliability. As a Certified DB2 UDB Specialist I happen to agree with your warm thoughts about DB2 to an extent.

All this counts for nothing. The best product does not necessarily win out. The best-positioned, and best-marketed product does.

So you may be right, and the magazine author may be a troll and he may be completely wrong. But if he is wrong it isn't because of any of DB2's (or Oracle's, or SQL Server's) inherent qualities. Received on Mon Jul 25 2005 - 17:10:31 CDT