Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

michael newport wrote:

> I agree that CA sales and marketing were bad. But Ingres the product is not.
> CA also wasted time and money on speculative products like Jasmine and Opal.
> Linux / Apache / PHP have taken off because they are reliable and OpenSource.
> I predict the same for Ingres.

And exactly why doesn't your "critical" understanding of the marketplace   indicate anything about MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and all of the other open-source code bases? You are a religious zealot pushing neolithic technology likely because it is all you know.

There is not a chance in 1000 that it will ever have 1/2 the marketshare of MySQL which is the only serious open-source competitor to Oracle and DB2.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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