Re: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Dag Sunde wrote:
>
> You're not seriously suggesting that DB2/NT is a mediocre database engine
> because of the lack of a "sexy" interface???
>

Dag,

No slam against the engine. Interestingly, Informix's IIUG Conference will
have Mike Saranga, inventor of DB2, now working for Informix, as a keynote
speaker. So, the engine may be ok, but I maintain the user interface is majorly boring. It's ok to use a color besides blue on a white background.

:-)  

> We're talking db-ENGINES, man... Powerpoint...

Well, if IBM is remotely interested in swaying non-DB2 people to DB2 on NT,
they'd have an uphill battle. First impression with it <is> important, and
not having an IBM background, I was not favorably impressed. This appears
to be a product IBM'rs will love, the rest will yawn. The terminology and
environment is so IBM, it reminds me of a 1970's style big-blue software product. It's as arcane I guess to me as UNIX would be to MVS people.

Interestingly, the DB2 engine started-up without the need to configure a rootdbs
or raw-device or cooked-file for the 'system tables'. Very interesting...

Tim
> ------------------
> Dag Sunde
> Softwarer Engineer
> Orion Systems As
> Oslo, Norway
  Received on Thu Jul 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT