Re: Excellent future for DB2

From: Larry <larry_at_nospam.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:52:48 -0400
Message-ID: <ASHKe.28851$Kx6.9281@fe12.lga>

Let me tell you something. Customers just don't carelessly spend money to the point where they are willing to waste it. Most of the time, they do a very thorough ongoing analysis of the costs and feasibility of different platforms for their applications ... it is not a simple matter of perceptions. If the mainframe didn't have a compelling value statement and compelling financial benefits, IBM wouldn't still be selling so many of them and DB2 wouldn't still be growing on that platform.

Larry E.

Bob Jones wrote:

>>While I can understand where you are coming from when you say many people 
>>feel that mainframes are "dated", that doesn't drive the rdbms business.

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> I do feel sorry if this is how my message was interpretated.
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>>Perception of value and of the most suitable platform to run a database on 
>>is what drives customer investment. Many customers to this day still feel 
>>that the mainframe is the best place for apps that require the ultimate in 
>>security, availability, reliability, and performance. That is the reason 
>>that we still see growth on mainframe platforms.
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> I agree it is just perceptions. Mainframe being the only place to get RAS is
> one of them. Funny you talked about performance. The cost/performance
> picture is not exactly pretty on mainframe, when compared to x86 or RISC
> platforms. Yes, there is growth in mainframe. In fact, there is growth in
> virtually all platforms. The unit sales per year for mainframe is measured
> in thousands, while other major server platforms are measured in millions.
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Received on Thu Aug 11 2005 - 07:52:48 CDT