Re: No future for DB2

I duuno ... don't see any signs that IBM is losing significant market share. Look at other examples in various industries ... for many products, there are usually at least 2 or 3 or 4 main survivors who end up there for the long-term. You don't even have to be the market share leader ... just have a significant presence. Hertz/Avis, American/United/Delta, Krups/Braun/Cuisinart, pick your example.

And, in fact, IBM's product and portfolio diversification as well as research funding should be seen as advantages to long-term survival over companies with less diverse product lines and solution lines.

Larry

Superboer wrote:
> the article may have some truth in it; may be it's a warning
> that IBM is suffering from the Philips syndrome; producing
> great technology but may loose the market.
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> If that is the case then it is a very good idea to take these signals
> serious and start doing something about it.
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> Superboer.
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> bka schreef:
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>>IBM, the company that invented SQL and relational database, is tied
>>(according to Gartner) for relational database revenue with Oracle. The
>>article that spawned this thread is a cheapshot by a nonentity seeking
>>self-promotion. I can't say much about Mac, but the characteristics
>>identified by Charles Darwin for the survival of a species are inherent
>>in DB2.