Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: DB2 UDB or Oracle (who has better support) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:43:44 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1109882435.448360@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <39f5d1d003b240fd963478370570c834@DBMonster.com> <1109818455.147931@yasure> <1109823307.612419.118860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1109823307.612419.118860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 24 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:237394 ak_tiredofspam@yahoo.com wrote: >>>How about the fact that DB2 has a different code base > > for different operating systems > ...<< > > Is that a fact? It is indeed. IBM'ers do their best to weave and bob like a boxer taking punches but avoid acknowleding it but it is a simple fact of life. DB2 is an excellent product on the mainframe. The OS/400 implementation is a completely different code base. The UNIX is another, etc. A simple check of how many characters for a table name will be sufficient to convince almost anyone other than Serge who works for IBM and codes DB2. He's a nice guy but doesn't want to lose his job so don't ask him to cry uncle. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)