Re: Adjusting to DB2

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:4360c5d6$0$8615$5a62ac22_at_per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> It's been a standard tactic of IT for "portable" products
> since I don't remember when. For many, many software
> makers. To even attempt to make it stick nowadays only shows
> the immense lack of IT experience of some of the bozos IBM
> hires as marketeers. Like: we all don't know the parlous
> state of support for most of the ancillary software needed
> to make products such as these portable?
>
> Let me see: M$ only breaks the Oracle code in every service
> pack, but never the DB2 code? Ah yes I forgot: because DB2 is
> "better coded". Yeah! Right...
>
> Present company excepted: Serge is not a marketroid,
> that I know for sure. Mark I dunno, but I suspect he isn't.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto

I don't work for IBM, nor do I work in marketing. I am a DBA.

I never said the DB2 was better, I just said it more isolated from the OS than Oracle.

Yes, DB2 code breaks, but rarely because of OS issues. I read almost all of the APAR's (problems) and very few are OS specific. Instead the usually apply to all platforms. Received on Thu Oct 27 2005 - 13:23:35 CDT