Re: No future for DB2

DA Morgan apparently said,on my timestamp of 28/07/2005 4:49 PM:

> is presiding over an aging baby-boom workforce. Speaking only from my
> experience in the US ... a large number of colleges and universities,
> including mine, have active programs teaching SQL Server and Oracle.
> I can not think of a single one teaching DB2.

Once a year I do a tour of the bookshops around here and see how many books are going for each of the major databases.

This year,
Oracle: two top-to-bottom bookshelfs.
SQL Server: one top-to-bottom bookshelf. MySQL: four shelfs.
Postgres: one shelf.
DB2: one shelf, with ALL books from IBM Press. UDB: none, not one single book.
All others (including Informix): one or two books here and there.

This is worse, MUCH worse than last year. And the year before. About time IBM stopped pandering to Gerstner's little hurt ego and just dropped the darn UDB thing once and for all and concentrated on what they do best: hardware and software for mainframes.

And just in case I get the usual hate mail: sorry folks, I like DB2 but it's irrelevant. And I don't call UDB the same product: never was, never will be. No amount of underhand marketing from IBM is gonna change that simple fact.
So don't bother with the "market positioning", waste of time and the reaction is the same: <yawn>

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Nuno Souto
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