Re: Adjusting to DB2

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:17:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1130339862.824621@yasure>

Noons wrote:
> Mark A apparently said,on my timestamp of 26/10/2005 3:51 PM:
>

>> Every release and every fixpack on all it's supported platforms. That 
>> is because it is more of a single code base than Oracle on the Linux, 
>> UNIX, Windows.

>
> Or because IBM delays its release on all ports to make it look so?

This is just window dressing. You notice that they conveniently ignored the mainframe and AS400 versions. No company releases every version at once except possibly Microsoft (one o/s only). And whether they do or not isn't worth enough to buy you a latte' at Starbucks.

The point I was making was not that Oracle releases every platform simultaneously ... because quite frankly that is a zero value proposition ... but rather that MarkA's comment about how long the delay is at Oracle was a pure fabrication.

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