Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:59:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1063411182.403065_at_yasure>
Mark A wrote:
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And this from someone with 10+ years of DB2.
In short ... there are plenty of reasons why someone might not like DB2.
Which does not mean I am one of them. But rather to try to pin it on
DBAs is a bit of a farse. Oracle, itself, is currently redesigning the
DBA's roles and responsibilities to be less RDBMS management and more
and more integration with application servers and other components. The
idea that Oracle is hard to manage is just a repetition of mythology: It
is no longer true. Just as many things about DB2 that were true five
years ago are no longer true.
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>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.
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Couldn't possibly be the lack of security without Tivoli or other
similar products?
Couldn't possibly be the lack of training classes?
Couldn't possibly be the lack of books?
Couldn't possibly be the fact that you need a C compiler on a production
box?
Couldn't possibly be the lack of third-party tools and applications?
Couldn't possibly be ....
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Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 01:59:56 CEST