Re: DB2 entering Wall Street. Will Oracle be left behind??

Dave Thompson <thompd_at_guppi.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.44.0211132224030.8925-100000_at_guppi>...
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Martin Doherty wrote:
>
> > >>>I am not saying that outsourcing to IBM means an overnight change in
> > >>>hardware and software. But it will be a gradual move over a period of
> > >>>several years. DB2 has more presence in the financial markets than oracle.
> > >>>If you look at the Numbers its Sybase then DB2 right now.
> > >>>
> > >>>Oracle on the other hand is losing face at a lot of places. For example the
> > >>>California Contract. Its a gradual decline for oracle but it looks like its
> > >>>coming.
>
> I'm continually fascinated at how DB2 has the market share that it does. In my
> experience with SQL Server, Oracle and DB2, I've found DB2 to be by far the
> most poorly engineered product of the lot (including Microsoft SQL Server).
> The company I work for made the poor choice of going with DB2 and we've had
> nothing but headaches since day one, despite having two "certified" DBAs at our
> disposal. Somehow, with competition like this, I don't think Oracle will be
> left behind...

The hilarious bit about this thread is that a recruiting firm posted to this news group about 6 months ago, and nearly head-hunted me for a job at JPMorgan ... converting Sybase databases to DB2 :-)

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-) Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 09:04:54 CST