From: Richard Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: DB2 or Oracle Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:29:13 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3D7C5BD9.40005@postmaster.co.uk> References: <3D7B40D1.9040107@ca.ibm.com> <3d7b4ad2$0$29907$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <3D7B7663.4070909@ca.ibm.com> <3D7C423E.8060500@postmaster.co.uk> <3d7c59dd$0$1285$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sungold3.nl.ibm.com (195.212.29.99) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031559981 60709156 195.212.29.99 (16 [64669]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Niall Litchfield wrote: > "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. It undermines the credibility of the person making the assertion. Oh, I see what you mean. I think the benefit of a single code base is that you can use your resources more effectively. But since no-one actually has a single code base, by the sound of it...