Re: database market share 2003

From: Darin McBride <dmcbride_at_naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:26:39 GMT
Message-ID: <PQ6xc.702452$Ig.669163@pd7tw2no>

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Noons wrote:
>
> So I was refering to DB2 UDB V5 for Unix, Windows (and Linux? Don't
> recall) having had a small marketshare at that point. It was only the

In v5.0, DB2 that you're referring to was DB2 for UWO, I think. I can't recall the order - but it's Unix, Windows, and OS/2.

IBM released a beta of DB2 for Linux with DB2 v5.2, but it never GA'd, and thus wasn't publically available. Rather, it wasn't supported, although the beta was a public beta.

DB2 for Linux GA'd with the rest of DB2 UDB on UWO with DB2 v6.1.

The platform identifier didn't seem to change until OS/2 was dropped with v8, from UWO to LUW - DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows. This corrects an oversight from previous releases that treated Linux as if it could be contained under the Unix name, which, of course, it can't. Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 18:26:39 CDT