Re: database market share 2003

"robert" <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com> schreef in bericht news:da3c2186.0406041436.898e949_at_posting.google.com...
> "Mark A" <ma_at_switchboard.net> wrote in message
news:<c9vuc.76$XJ.51654_at_news.uswest.net>...
> > > You can't call the fact that I, personally, have never run into
> > > DB2 on Windows nonsense. And you sure can't dig your way out of it
> > > by making reference to HP and Sun hardware unless you are somehow
> > > equating Solaris with a Microsoft product.
> > >
> > > So I'll try the statement again ... I ... that means mean personally,
in
> > > 35 years in this industry ... seen DB2 on Windows in any organization
> > > that didn't have DB2 also on another IBM platform such as a mainframe
> > > or AS400.
> > >
> > > I can not be wrong about my personal experience.
> > >
> > > If you wish to prove that my personal experience is somehow skewed and
> > > not representative of the database market as a whole ... then here's
> > > how you can do it.
> > >
> > > Publish official numbers showing the number of DB2 licenses, on MS
> > > Windows, that are in companies that are not also using DB2 on
mainframes
> > > or AS400. Simple.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Morgan
> >
> > I didn't say anything about your "personal experience." I just said your
> > comments are nonsense. If you prefer: "your [limited] experience is
> > non-sense."
> >
> >
> > I have seen many DB2 installations on Windows. Since you live in
Washington
> > state, where there is an extreme MS bias, most companies use MS SQL
Server
> > on Windows. That combination is strong, but not quite as dominant in
other
> > parts of the country.
> >
> >
> >
> > Excluding all companies that also run DB2 on OS/390 and AS/400 is quite
> > restrictive. I believe that are over 2000 companies who use DB2 on IBM
> > mainframes. The number of companies that run AS/400 (or I series) is in
the
> > tens of thousands, and DB2 comes with the OS.
> >
> >
> >
> > So you seem to be excluding a huge percentage of the largest 5000
companies
> > in the US (most of whom have at least one IBM mainframe running DB2 or
an
> > AS/400 which comes with DB2).
> >
> >
> >
> > So your comments are ridiculous (again). Double-talk. Non-Sense.
>
> 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 ?

<snip> Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 17:55:00 CDT