Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:31:04 +0100
Message-ID: <bk1g13$n9fdm$1_at_ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>
"Mark A" <ma_at_switchboard.net> wrote in message news:91P8b.820$TJ.101480_at_news.uswest.net...
> You seem to be judging the databases based on market share. Maybe in the
UK
> DB2 is not popular, but in the US it is doing very well against Oracle. MS
> SQL Server is also doing well. Oracle is loosing market share, which is
not
> surprising since the pretty much owned the market at one time.
To be clear, you're talking about DB2 UDB, right? In the UK, for sure "DB2" is very popular, because of all those mainframe installations (and because every AS400 has DB2 USB installed on it whether used or not). But in the UNIX/Linux/NT market DB2 UDB is a marginal player by comparison with Oracle and particularly - as you say - the fast-growing SQL Server. Received on Sun Sep 14 2003 - 12:31:04 CEST