Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

From: Darin McBride <dmcbride_at_naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:25:02 GMT
Message-ID: <icR8b.955682$3C2.21607107_at_news3.calgary.shaw.ca>


Daniel Morgan wrote:

> Mark A wrote:
>
> Sorry to say this but the code base for Oracle is 100% identical between
> platforms. I can develop on Win98, export tables, data, code, etc.
> Import directly to any other platform-operating system that Oracle
> supports and it runs, perfectly, with zero modifications.

I think you're confusing _Oracle_ code being identical, and the _interface_ being identical. I highly suspect that both Oracle and DB2 for LUW have pretty much the same proportion of "identical" code between all supported platforms vs "platform-specific" code, and that their APIs would stay 100% the same across all supported platforms.

> The only difference I can possibly think of would be things that are
> path specific such as c:\temp changing to /opt/.
>
> It isn't about insulting your intelligence ... it is a fact.

I think it's more like a misunderstanding. Received on Sun Sep 14 2003 - 05:25:02 CEST

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