Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

> >DB2 is good on Unix, Linux, and Windows also. DBA's don't like DB2
because
> >it takes fewer of them to operate and they think there are more Oracle
jobs
> >in the marketplace.
> >
> Couldn't possibly be the lack of security without Tivoli or other
> similar products?
> Couldn't possibly be the lack of training classes?
> Couldn't possibly be the lack of books?
> Couldn't possibly be the fact that you need a C compiler on a production
> box?
> Couldn't possibly be the lack of third-party tools and applications?
> Couldn't possibly be ....
>
> And this from someone with 10+ years of DB2.
>
> In short ... there are plenty of reasons why someone might not like DB2.
> Which does not mean I am one of them. But rather to try to pin it on
> DBAs is a bit of a farse. Oracle, itself, is currently redesigning the
> DBA's roles and responsibilities to be less RDBMS management and more
> and more integration with application servers and other components. The
> idea that Oracle is hard to manage is just a repetition of mythology: It
> is no longer true. Just as many things about DB2 that were true five
> years ago are no longer true.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan

Those might be good reasons (if they were all true, but I don't agree that they are) for a manager to make that decision in favor of one product over another. But 90% of DBA's only care about the state of the job market and how their skills match up to that market. Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 02:10:16 CEST