Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:50:38 +0200 From: Anton Versteeg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Excellent future for DB2 References: <3kkd26FurndhU1@individual.net> <1122536353.139043@yasure> <1122599914.160308.68340@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122697313.608271.287690@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <76GdnQEAyMu2CnDfRVn-jA@comcast.com> <1122867226.713664.145680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1122874347.713358@yasure> <1123211921.811695.99250@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1123227622.552745.271830@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: blueice1n1.uk.ibm.com Message-ID: <42f728fc_1@news3.prserv.net> X-Trace: 8 Aug 2005 09:42:20 GMT, blueice1n1.uk.ibm.com Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Lines: 29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news3.prserv.net!blueice1n1.uk.ibm.com Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.ibm-db2:90173 comp.databases.informix:119253 comp.databases.oracle.server:249073 Bob Jones wrote: >>the article may have some truth in it; may be it's a warning >>that IBM is suffering from the Philips syndrome; producing >>great technology but may loose the market. >> > > >>If that is the case then it is a very good idea to take these signals >>serious and start doing something about it. >> > > > I am not sure if they are producing good technology. Their software surely > does not score high in the ease-of-use department. That's why more services > and supports are needed. > > IMO, AIX is propbably the only good thing come out of IBM. Mainframe is no > longer a great technology by today's standard. > > You obviously don't know what you are talking about. 'By todays standard' must be 'by your standard' DB2 ranks #1 in many places. So where is your #3 coming from? Which ranking? Reading your post, I quess one cannot be any more vague than you are. -- Anton Versteeg IBM Netherlands