Re: No future for DB2

Mark A wrote:

> I certainly am not discounting that Oracle has a larger market share than
> DB2 on Linux, but the article made it seem like IBM did something wrong by
> not supporting Linux for their own software.

We have to be careful with 'market share'.

Oracle, for instance, during its heydey, went around selling Oracle to almost anyone they could browbeat into buying a copy. Whether those databases amounted to anything useful or not .. who knows.

Same with SQL Server. Everyone and his brother has a SQL Server instance set up...but how many of those are being used for a single table of contacts?

I maintain, and I have no data just experience, that IBM, the iSeries ( which is a DB2 UDB ), p and z Series DB2 installations are almost entirely being used for /real/ applications...transactional applications...live business applications.

And, while the iSeries has declined in revenue somewhat since inception, it's staging a comeback...which means a comeback for DB2. What is more, the architecture of OS400 (everything an object in a database) may have been radical for 1989...but now, with Longhorn (or whatever they call it) aping the OS400, one has to say, "yeah, IBM has been there all along".

So, let's get real. DB2 runs the world. Other RDBMS run vanity systems and developer projects that never went anywhere.

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