Bob Jones wrote:
>>The *new license* sales of DB2 is as much as Oracle. Since bulk
>>of DB2 sales is on mainframe platform, it tells that Db2 on mainframe
>>still sells as much as Oracle. I think this fact by itself deserves
>>respect.
>>
>>If anyone takes an inventory of mission critical applications running on
>>databases, Db2 may end up as #1.
>>
>>
>
>
> Could it be because many customers are locked in to mainframe and the
> software on mainframe is outrageously expensive? Of course it deserves
> respect. IBM can sell DB2 on its own proprietary platform.
>
Why would a customer be locked into the mainframe?
Isn't RAC on Linux good enough?
Also note that analysts generally count NEW licence revenues.
That would hardly be revenue coming from lock in.
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Nov 30 2005 - 00:22:37 CST
