Re: Coke switches to DB2!!

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:57:56 +1000
Message-ID: <4AD45D34.2030300_at_iinet.net.au>

We run the I5/OS (AS400) version and Oracle 10g. There is no similarity whatsoever between i5 and z/os or luw versions of db2: completely different products with a common name.

Many years ago I pointed that out in c.d.o.s. Only to be derided by the IBM "experts" there. I'm glad nowadays even IBM is finally admitting there are 3 versions of DB2 and they bear no common code whatsoever.

Which one is more compatible with Oracle? Don't know and quite frankly: couldn't care less.

Any notion that one can switch database products because they are "compatible" is doomed to failure.

As IBM has proven for many years, with their different DB2 versions.

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Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision_at_iinet.net.au

Bill Ferguson wrote,on my timestamp of 13/10/2009 12:21 AM:


> Does anybody on here work with both Oracle and DB2?

> 

> I was wondering, merely for my own information (thankfully nobody has

> ever suggested this), if what Tom Kyte wrote many years ago is still

> applicable today

> (http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:6495007510621886::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1886476148373)?

> 

> Specifically where he says:

> "What DB2 do you use on all platforms?  Answer -- none, they have

> different DB2's for different

> architectures. (that report often seems to confuse things in DB2/OS390

> with DB2/UDB -- "features

> they've had for years", that OS390 -- UDB, totally different code

> base, totally different

> architecture."

> 

> Has IBM improved this 'initial' flaw, or is this still an issue with DB2?




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