Re: Adjusting to DB2

From: <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: 28 Oct 2005 08:08:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1130512097.028320.290820@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Mark A wrote:

> DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows are different products,
> not just different code bases. But since very few people use Oracle on z/OS
> for any serious work, then it is basically irrelevent. DB2 for Linux, UNIX,
> and Windows is MUCH more of single code base on those platforms than Oracle
> is on the same platforms.
>

Your 'proof' in another post has little to do with proving anything to do with the code, and lot to do with proving that there is a poor management process in place.

Oracle is written in 2 major pieces: the Database Server and the VOS, or Virtual Operating System.

The DB is written to the VOS API, and the VOS is written to deal with different platforms.

This is not an unusual method of writing a large application. Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 10:08:17 CDT