Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:52:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1063410738.556158_at_yasure>

Mark A wrote:

Friends!

I am not anti DB2. It is a good
database on Main Frames system.

System crash, if it has not happened on your
production server running DB2 so far, please
wait for 6-8 months.


Peter

    

DB2 is good on Unix, Linux, and Windows also. DBA's don't like DB2 because
it takes fewer of them to operate and they think there are more Oracle jobs
in the marketplace. All systems have problems occasionally, just ask Ebay
about their outages caused by Oracle crashes and hangs.

If you personally had problems that could not be resolved with IBM support,
then maybe it was unique to your situation and use of the product.

  

Just ask anybody about their crashes. What nonsense. Most systems crash for the same reason most cars crash ... bad drivers.

But I'd stay away from promoting DB2 on Windows. I can't think of much worse than a database with almost no built-in security on an operating system with ... well ... almost no built-in security. Oracle and Informix are far better choices if security is a concern.

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Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 01:52:33 CEST