Re: Good News for MS Windows users: Your favorite database is here..

DB2 is the same code base on all versions of Windows (95 through 2000), AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, NUMA-Q and OS/2. There are three other DB2 code bases (390, AS/400 and VM/VSE). 4 code bases is not "zillions". Each RDBMS vendor has an additional code base kicking around (Oracle has RDB, Sybase has SQL Anywhere, and Microsoft has Access and Foxpro) - at least IBM has aligned DML across the platforms.

Nuno Souto wrote:

> On Sat, 19 May 2001 09:36:46 -0400, Blair Kenneth Adamache
> <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> >merging object-relational features into a parallel relational database) mesh
> >nicely with DB2's approach. It is our expectation that Informix releases under
>
> Yeah, they might eventually allow IBM to deliver one version of DB2,
> instead of the zillion versions out there, one for each platform...
>
> <d&r>
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
  Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 07:27:43 CDT