Re: No future for DB2

From: Mark A <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:17:55 -0600
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"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message news:C0gFe.486$kk6.393_at_newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>> AFAIK, IBM has made all of it's database and related software run on
>> Linux, including Linux running on IBM mainframes.
>>
>
> IMO, the only thing sounds more ludicrous than Linux on mainframe is Java
> on mainframe. Has anybody at IBM done the math on price/performance?

Price-performance ain't what it used to be. Mainframes are air-cooled and some PC's (including some Mac servers) are water cooled these days.

Many mainframes use the same enterprise storage systems as most UNIX servers. Received on Mon Jul 25 2005 - 21:17:55 CDT