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Gert van der Kooij wrote:
> In article <1109882435.448360_at_yasure>, DA Morgan
> (damorgan_at_x.washington.edu) says...
>
>>ak_tiredofspam_at_yahoo.com wrote: >> >> >>>>>How about the fact that DB2 has a different code base >>> >>>for different operating systems >>>...<< >>> >>>Is that a fact? >> >>It is indeed. IBM'ers do their best to weave and bob like a boxer >>taking punches but avoid acknowleding it but it is a simple fact >>of life. DB2 is an excellent product on the mainframe. The OS/400 >>implementation is a completely different code base. The UNIX is >>another, etc. >> >>A simple check of how many characters for a table name will be >>sufficient to convince almost anyone other than Serge who works >>for IBM and codes DB2. He's a nice guy but doesn't want to lose >>his job so don't ask him to cry uncle. >>
No it isn't the same thing. It may well be true that the *NIX and Windows code bases are the same. But the differences going to other code bases can be substantially the same as changing products as recoding and retesting may be required.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Thu Mar 03 2005 - 19:06:52 CST