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Re: No future for DB2

From: Anton Versteeg <Anton_Versteeg_at_nnll.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:24 +0200
Message-ID: <42e747fb_4@news3.prserv.net>


Mike wrote:

> On 2005-07-26, Anton Versteeg <Anton_Versteeg_at_nnll.ibm.com> wrote:
> 

>>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.
> 
> 
> Oracle does run on the host.
> 
> Mike

I said it is non-existent, meaning that i haven't seen a customer using it.
-- 
Anton Versteeg
IBM Netherlands
Received on Wed Jul 27 2005 - 03:46:24 CDT

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