Re: oracle has customers over a barrel
From: The Boss <nltaal_at_baasbovenbaas.demon.nl>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <eca54c5f-7bac-4cce-8b5e-fc07d8d19d49_at_k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>
On 12 sep, 16:11, grendal <im_gu..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 9:01 am, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow..._at_eds.com> wrote:
>
> > From IBM. I installed DB2 on a Linux partition on a mainframe and I
> > am sure as Serge has confirmed that it was available on AIX and Sun
> > Solaris at the time (version 8 and/or 8.1). IBM had/has ported the
> > product to non-IBM platforms. They were in the process of making the
> > UDB versions and the traditional version more alike at the time. That
> > is the first ports to other platforms and the mainframe version were
> > not based on the exact same code base but I do believe that version 8
> > had greatly reduced the differences. By now there should be few code
> > base differences except at the very lowest OS interface level.
>
> > See Serge's reply.
> > -- Mark D Powell --
>
> Admitting that you've installed DB2 is bad enough. Admitting to Linux
> on Z, well ...
>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <eca54c5f-7bac-4cce-8b5e-fc07d8d19d49_at_k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>
On 12 sep, 16:11, grendal <im_gu..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 9:01 am, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow..._at_eds.com> wrote:
>
> > From IBM. I installed DB2 on a Linux partition on a mainframe and I
> > am sure as Serge has confirmed that it was available on AIX and Sun
> > Solaris at the time (version 8 and/or 8.1). IBM had/has ported the
> > product to non-IBM platforms. They were in the process of making the
> > UDB versions and the traditional version more alike at the time. That
> > is the first ports to other platforms and the mainframe version were
> > not based on the exact same code base but I do believe that version 8
> > had greatly reduced the differences. By now there should be few code
> > base differences except at the very lowest OS interface level.
>
> > See Serge's reply.
> > -- Mark D Powell --
>
> Admitting that you've installed DB2 is bad enough. Admitting to Linux
> on Z, well ...
>
Well, I've no problem admitting to having installed and running DB2 on Linux on z for quite a few years now without major problems. We also run Oracle on Linux on z, for instance for a Data Warehouse that used to run on a (big) Sun server.
-- JeroenReceived on Mon Sep 14 2009 - 16:47:59 CDT