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Re: No future for DB2

From: Knut Stolze <stolze_at_de.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:41:41 +0200
Message-ID: <dcag9l$fak$1@fsuj29.rz.uni-jena.de>


Noons wrote:

> DA Morgan apparently said,on my timestamp of 28/07/2005 4:49 PM:
>

>> is presiding over an aging baby-boom workforce. Speaking only from my
>> experience in the US ... a large number of colleges and universities,
>> including mine, have active programs teaching SQL Server and Oracle.
>> I can not think of a single one teaching DB2.

>
> Once a year I do a tour of the bookshops around here and see
> how many books are going for each of the major databases.
>
> This year,
> Oracle: two top-to-bottom bookshelfs.
> SQL Server: one top-to-bottom bookshelf.
> MySQL: four shelfs.
> Postgres: one shelf.
> DB2: one shelf, with ALL books from IBM Press.
> UDB: none, not one single book.
> All others (including Informix): one or two books
> here and there.

That's a nice flamewar here. Let's fan it some more... ;-)

Your metric doesn't mean anything useful. As you are surely aware, the number of books probably only says samething about the number of *bad* book being available - not about the number of good and useful books, which is undoubtedly rather small for Oracle too. (I'm inclined to agree that there might be more useful Oracle books out there than for DB2.)

Another idea is: why are so many books needed for Oracle in the first place? Makes me wonder. ;-)

-- 
Knut Stolze
Information Integration Development
IBM Germany / University of Jena
Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 06:41:41 CDT

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