> The *new license* sales of DB2 is as much as Oracle. Since bulk
> of DB2 sales is on mainframe platform, it tells that Db2 on mainframe
> still sells as much as Oracle. I think this fact by itself deserves
> respect.
>
> If anyone takes an inventory of mission critical applications running on
> databases, Db2 may end up as #1.
>
>
Could it be because many customers are locked in to mainframe and the
software on mainframe is outrageously expensive? Of course it deserves
respect. IBM can sell DB2 on its own proprietary platform.
Received on Tue Nov 29 2005 - 22:23:48 CST
