You're not seriously suggesting that DB2/NT is a mediocre database engine
because of the lack of a "sexy" interface???
We're talking db-ENGINES, man... Powerpoint...
Dag Sunde
Softwarer Engineer
Orion Systems As
Oslo, Norway
Tim Schaefer wrote in article <33BAEC0A.8AF90DA6_at_mindspring.com>...
>
>Yeah, I looked at the NT version just to see what the buzz is all about.
>The interface sucks! Gives me the creeps.
>
>Did they send the DB2 team for NT to a special school to make the
>interface
>as gawd-awful as it is? It is absolutely the most bland, boring, yucky
>interface out there. Don't know about the performance, but it reminds
>me
>of the old IBM look-and-feel: I Build Mediocrity. ALL the windows are
>in
>black-n-white! No color... Amazing... Flat-files would be a better
>choice.
>:-)
>
>Another interesting point. The on-line documentation is
>characteristically
>IBM, and you have to fire up each help file separately. This is majorly
>sucky software. Informix has nothing to worry about with the NT
>version.
>You can put Visual Aged for Java in this catagory too. Yech!
>
>:-)
>
>Just my penny...
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Received on Thu Jul 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
