Re: database market share 2003

From: Data Goob <datagoob_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 22:21:11 -0400
Message-ID: <S7awc.8628$YQ3.8205@fe42.usenetserver.com>

You guys got me thinking, what would I find on IBM's web site about OS/390? Got my curiousity going, and so I went over to IBM and did a search for OS/390. What did I find?

"IBM announces the end of service for OS/390 2.10, the last release of OS/390, will be September 30, 2004. Customers on OS/390

2.10 should be making plans to complete their migrations to z/OS
1.4 by this date. IBM also announces the end of service for z/OS
1.2 will be October 31, 2004, and the end of service for z/OS 1.3

will be March 31, 2005, as planned. The end of service for z/OS 1.4 will be extended to March 31, 2007. This date is the same as the end of service date planned for z/OS 1.5. "

Does Informix run on OS/390?

I would think this a match made in heaven...

:-)

"Mark A" <ma_at_switchboard.net> wrote in message news:E87wc.56$5Z4.43271_at_news.uswest.net...
> > > so far as i know, oracle is oracle is oracle, no matter the platform.
> > > not so for DB2:
> > >
> >
> > Oracle is oracle is oracle?
> > Why then does Oracle publish, next to their general documentation, also
> > quite a few manuals specifically for Oracle on OS/390 ?
> >
> Oracle on OS/390 is basically the same codebase as the other Oracle
> platforms. Which is the reason that it works so poorly on OS/390 and few of
> the companies who have it installed use it for production applications.
>
> Then why do companies (over 500) buy Oracle for OS/390 if it works so poorly
> compared to DB2 for OS/390. One consultant told me: "For the same reason
> that people buy pet rocks."
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 21:21:11 CDT