Re: >Oracle's future

>I would just like to point out several things:
> 1, DB2/6000 is faster than Oracle v7, if Oracle doesn't use discrete trans.

You would hope that IBM's proprietary database on their proprietary box would run faster than any other. The figures I got from IBM are:

	TPC-A on RISC system 6000 model 580
	    DB2/6000 - 125.64 TPSA
	    Oracle 7 - 157.20 TPSA

	Note: Oracle used discrete transactions to get their result.

I don't know how many IBM would release, but I get the impression that most mainframe sites only upgrade once/year. Would you want to wait 12 months for an enhancement or bug fix? Perhaps IBM products are "bug free". In any case, you only take upgrades when you are ready. You don't have to apply 26 maintenance releases one at a time.
>
>Pat Gainer
>gainer_at_almaden.ibm.com

One advantage of Oracle 7 is a large amount of third party software and services support. Since DB2/6000 only went production in late November, there is only a small amount of third party software and services available as far as I am aware.

DB2 runs on MVS, DB2/6000 runs on AIX and OS/2. They are porting to HP. Oracle runs on all these and many more. Oracle was production on AIX and OS/2 long before DB2/6000 was.

Oracle supports Parallel server on AIX (HACMP). Although IBM are planning this, I don't think it is available yet for DB2/6000.

I also understand DB2/6000 is a subset of DB2/MVS.

I hope this clears up a few things.

Regards,
Andrew.

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