Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: Gert van der Kooij Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: DB2 UDB or Oracle (who has better support) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:43:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <39f5d1d003b240fd963478370570c834@DBMonster.com> <1109818455.147931@yasure> <1109823307.612419.118860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1109882435.448360@yasure> <6q7f21prtalrm2ukrte4jsm5fdjsk1so92@4ax.com> Organization: Thuis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.253.194 X-Trace: 1109893434 news.xs4all.nl 28979 [::ffff:213.84.253.194]:34776 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:237422 In article <6q7f21prtalrm2ukrte4jsm5fdjsk1so92@4ax.com>, Sybrand Bakker (postbus@sybrandb.demon.nl) says... > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:01:18 +0100, Gert van der Kooij > wrote: > > >You're mixing up things. As Serge and others always said the > >Unix/Linux/Windows codebase is the same, only the lowest operating > >system layer is different. I guess this is the same for Oracle. > > No. Oracle comes with it's own Virtual Operating System on board. > Which I guess is almost the same as an operating system layer? I don't know how this is organized in the DB2 code but logically it should be the same as Oracle's VOS. Kind regards, Gert