Re: database market share 2003

From: robert <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com>
Date: 7 Jun 2004 14:32:10 -0700
Message-ID: <da3c2186.0406071332.67001a45@posting.google.com>

Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.eye-be-em.com> wrote in message news:<ca28br$jr3$1_at_hanover.torolab.ibm.com>... <snip>
> 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.

nah. all the UDB books i've seen say, in effect, "don't try this on the mainframe." i've been bitten more than once. my two pets: you can't set integrity (without getting a COBOL-er to run a Job), and you can't reset an identity.

robert

<snip> Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 16:32:10 CDT