"hpuxrac" <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1122460910.114919.56460_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Superboer wrote:
>> > This is a funny way of looking at. Obviously Oracle's none locking
>> > engine is perfectly suited to scaling multi user applications,
>> > particularly when most people are developing for stateless clients.
>
>
> My interpretation of the article if that is what it was is that DB2 is
> not penetrating very far in the unix world.
>
> It obviously will not EVER go away too many big shops running it on the
> mainframe.
>
> And it has certainly gotten at least limited traction in the unix
> world, some of my good friends and former colleagues are supporting SAP
> at a big chemical manufacturer running DB2 on unix.
If only IBM already had a database product hugely respected in the UNIX
market, and in fact designed specifically *for* that market, eh?
Received on Wed Jul 27 2005 - 15:52:53 CDT
