Re: database market share 2003

Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.eye-be-em.com> wrote in message news:<camp3h$dho$1_at_hanover.torolab.ibm.com>...

> Do you have any data to back up the claim that Siebel's premier
> development platform and internal systems ran first DB2 mainframe?

Other than its deranged architectrure? no.

> Fact is that when Oracle started competing with their apps vendors those
> vendors try as best as they can to distance themselves from Oracle.

No. They try as best as tehy can to ALSO BE AVAILABLE on Oracle's competitive products. Got the diff?

Let me see if I can use small enough words so that some guys can understand:

the fact that a maker ports its product to another database does NOT mean that the initial database has stopped being used or supported by this same maker. Got it, or is the concept too hard to grasp?

> Siebel itself now runs it's Siebel on DB2 and IBM runs Siebel on DB2.

So what?

> I don't know how far along Siebel is converting it's development
> platform from Oracle to DB2.

Along nowhere. It's not CONVERTING, it's PORTING. Crap, you people are thick sometimes... Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 05:53:56 CDT