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Re: No future for DB2

From: Anton Versteeg <Anton_Versteeg_at_nnll.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:31:03 +0200
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rkusenet wrote:


> This article is very bleak about future of DB2. How credible is the

> author.   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1839681,00.asp

> 




The author forgets a couple of things:


DB2 is the only RDBMS that runs on mainframe, midrange and PC servers.
(Oracle is non-existent on the mainframe)
There is more data stored in DB2 than in any other DBMS product.



The article is pure FUD.

-- 
Anton Versteeg
IBM Netherlands


Received on Tue Jul 26 2005 - 07:31:03 CDT












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