Re: How to choose a DB

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: 1999/12/30
Message-ID: <386BE9DD.AE12B114_at_ca.ibm.com>#1/1


For those not familiar with the flavours: DB2 EE represents the serial and SMP class DB2 EEE represents the MPP class

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Since the attempt was made to compare apples to apples here:
> DB2 UDB for Workstations (Unix, NT, OS/2) should be the proper fruit for
> this basket.
> This comprises DB2 UDB EE and DB2 UDB EEE both the same code with the same
> extenders, ...
> just a different licence - which is what Larry tried to point out.
> DB2 Everywhere does not yet support clustered Palmpilots I'm affraid...
> (That would then be DB2 EEEE (Everywhere Enterprise Extended Edition) 8-)
>
> Cheers
> Serge
>
> Mark Townsend wrote:
>
> > Larry Edelstein wrote:
> > >
> > > Ah ... but DB2 UDB does support both requirements from one code base!
> > >
> >
> > Interesting - which one of the 'one code' bases is it ? UDB, UDB EE, UDB
> > EEE, UDB OS/390, or UDB AS/400 (not to mention Satellite and Everywhere)
> > :-)
> >
> > And whatever happened to FRED ? Always a good read.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark Townsend
Received on Thu Dec 30 1999 - 00:00:00 CET

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