From: "Niall Litchfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.oracle.server References: <3D7B40D1.9040107@ca.ibm.com> <3d7b4ad2$0$29907$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <3D7B7663.4070909@ca.ibm.com> <3D7C423E.8060500@postmaster.co.uk> Subject: Re: DB2 or Oracle Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:20:46 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3d7c59dd$0$1285$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: usercp95.uk.uudial.com X-Trace: 1031559645 news.dial.pipex.com 1285 62.188.156.124 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net "Richard" wrote in message news:3D7C423E.8060500@postmaster.co.uk... > Nuno Souto wrote: > > Serge Rielau wrote in message news:<3D7B7663.4070909@ca.ibm.com>... > > > >>Hmm, mainframes don't count BUT evil DB2 unses a different codebase > >>there, shame on them an hence don't buy it for the other platforms.. > >>Do I sense schizophrenia by competitive marketing here???? > > > > You may recall more than a year ago I was vilified for stating as > > a fact what is now recognized as truth. Back then, I was the bad boy. > > Now, it's "of course". > > > > BTW, I never said DB2 is "evil", it's your statement not mine. > > > > What I said back then (and everyone made a tremendous effort to > > discredit me) was that the codebase for zSeries and AS400 is NOT > > the same as for the others. And therefore IBM cannot claim, > > like they did back then, that there was only one codebase > > for DB2. It's bull, always was. > > This is an interesting discovery. I've certainly heard the "same code" > mantra a thousand times. What difference does it make? Or rather what difference is it claimed to make. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK ***************************************** Please include version and platform and SQL where applicable It makes life easier and increases the likelihood of a good answer ******************************************