Re: database market share 2003

You mean this:
http://www-1.ibm.com/industries/financialservices/doc/content/component/software/270311103.html
"* Multiple operating systems, running on IBM and non-IBM hardware

• A single code base to deliver a consistent set of functionality from small single CPU systems, to SMP, to clusters of either"

That statement is correct.

One can pick on the fact that the author didn't fully qualify "DB2 UDB" to "DB2 UDB for Linux Unix and Windows". We discussed this "legacy" problem of the UDB qualifier in earlier posts in this thread. UDB is unfortunately commonly used similarly to "SQL".
"SQL" means MS SQL Server, UDB means DB2 UDB for Linux Unix and Windows.

I recall a debate with Mark on an Oracle claim alleging that "inline procedural language" wasn't new and Oracle has it. After explaining to Mark over a beer what that feature means we settled for "marketing doesn't know better".
Not every fine slip is malicious.

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab