Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:33:58 -0800
Message-ID: <41f2d4ce$1_2_at_127.0.0.1>
>
> due
> to portability. <<
>
> I agree there are other advantages to Open Source, but database people
> do consider that LINUX will run on their 390 as well as on their
> smaller servers and desktops. This is important for DB2 people, since
> you can also get LINUX based tools.
>
> Having a database from a company that supports every major operating
> system and platform is nice, but each code base is slightly different
> in each OS, each set of available tools is slightly different, etc. It
> starts to add up fast when you realize that ReportWriter-X only runs on
> Windows and not the mainframe, that DataDictionary-Y is only on OS/390,
> etc.
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:33:58 -0800
Message-ID: <41f2d4ce$1_2_at_127.0.0.1>
-CELKO- wrote:
>>>No one I am aware of has made a decision to favor Linux over Windows
>
> due
> to portability. <<
>
> I agree there are other advantages to Open Source, but database people
> do consider that LINUX will run on their 390 as well as on their
> smaller servers and desktops. This is important for DB2 people, since
> you can also get LINUX based tools.
>
> Having a database from a company that supports every major operating
> system and platform is nice, but each code base is slightly different
> in each OS, each set of available tools is slightly different, etc. It
> starts to add up fast when you realize that ReportWriter-X only runs on
> Windows and not the mainframe, that DataDictionary-Y is only on OS/390,
> etc.
It is not necessary for a different code base to exist to run on differing platforms and operating systems. That IBM has multiple code bases says one thing. I don't think you will find that this is true with either Oracle or Informix and possibly not with Sybase though I'm not sure.
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