Re: >Oracle's future

verma_at_eclipse.torolab.ibm.com (Surendra K. Verma) writes:

>In article <1994Mar22.223454.2137_at_colesmyer.com.au> amay_at_colesmyer.com.au (Andrew May CMIS) writes:
>>>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:
>>
>I don't know how you can classify DB2/6000 to be any more "proprietary"
>than Oracle. Just because it was released on the RS/6000 before any
>other platform? I think what's great about the statement below is that
>the FIRST release of this product would have beaten Oracle if Oracle
>had not used discrete transactions.

First, DB2/6000 was not released on the RS/6000 before any other platform. DB2/6000 is IBM's Workstation RDBMS and is a port of the DB2/2 product. It was released on OS/2 first and is just the next release of the OS/2 EE Datamanager.

Secondly, on what do you base the statement that it would have beaten Oracle if Oracle had not used discrete transactions? A guess? A feeling? A hope?

Dave (ddargo_at_us.oracle.com) Received on Thu Mar 24 1994 - 00:40:30 CET