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Re: database market share 2003

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.eye-be-em.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:24:04 -0400
Message-ID: <ca28br$jr3$1@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>


Noons wrote:
> Serge Rielau allegedly said,on my timestamp of 7/06/2004 10:42 PM:
>

>>
>> Noons, can you point us to a google-link where this claim was made. 
>> I'm following these newsgroups since about 6 years and I have never 
>> seen such a claim.

>
>
> I think it was one of Blair's claims for DB2 that started it.
> Can't find the original post, it's not in google anymore
> although many of my replies are. Somewhere around this time
> of the year, 2001. It's the marketing "season" anyways.
>
>

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=3B0840EB.553CAFF2%40us.ibm.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DBlair%2Bcodebase%2B390%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D3B0840EB.553CAFF2%2540us.ibm.com%26rnum%3D1

I quote from Blair's post, and yours (appended):

DB2 is the same code base on all versions of Windows (95 through 2000), AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, NUMA-Q and OS/2. There are three other DB2 code bases (390, AS/400
and VM/VSE). 4 code bases is not "zillions". Each RDBMS vendor has an additional
code base kicking around (Oracle has RDB, Sybase has SQL Anywhere, and Microsoft has
Access and Foxpro) - at least IBM has aligned DML across the platforms.

Nuno Souto wrote:

 > On Sat, 19 May 2001 09:36:46 -0400, Blair Kenneth Adamache
 > <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
 >
 > >merging object-relational features into a parallel relational 
database) mesh
 > >nicely with DB2's approach. It is our expectation that Informix releases under
 >
 > Yeah, they might eventually allow IBM to deliver one version of DB2,
 > instead of the zillion versions out there, one for each platform...
 >
 > <d&r>
 >
 > Cheers
 > Nuno Souto
 > nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
 > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html

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So could we now put this myth about IBMers pretending there is only one codebase to bed?

Cheers
Serge

-- 
Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 12:24:04 CDT

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