Re: database market share 2003

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:30:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1086759054.247149@yasure>

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Noons wrote:
>

>> What was stated here many times by IBM people was that the
>> code base was the same.  Unqualified.  Period.  Whereas
>> Oracle's wasn't.  About as much sense as the rest of
>> IBM's policies...

>
> 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.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

I just went to google and put in the following as my seach criterion:

"DB2" AND "Single code base"

You might want to do the same.

The first link returned was:
www-1.ibm.com/....
Top of the next page was:
www.db2mag.com/ story/....
And Oracle ... at otn.oracle.com has White Papers detailing where that claim has been made.

I think the claim has been made numerous times. And like so much marketing hyperbole is one that would best be apologized for.

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