Re: DB2 HADB

"Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:3uuvmpF138sanU1_at_individual.net...
> Jim Kennedy wrote:
> > So you have DB2 running on all these platforms and they work
differently.
> > (different defaults etc) This is a benefit? It sounds like you guys
can't
> > determine which way is the right way to do it so pick them all.
> One size does not fit all. DB2 for LUW would not be able to success on
> DB2 for zOS in the same way as the real thing. The same was deemed true
> vice versa.
> Vastly different OS, hardware, I/O.
> Given that the only other product which covers zOS and LUW at once is
> Oracle and Oracle's marketshare is low single digit on zOS there is at
> least no counter point.
> None of the opinions voiced so passionately about the fact in this group
> would be worth giving away those billions of revenue now would it? ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Serge
> --
> Serge Rielau
> DB2 SQL Compiler Development
> IBM Toronto Lab

Serge,
You can attempt to spin it anyway you want but clearly both you and Mark A. are saying that DB2 is a very different beast depending upon what platform it runs on. (Market share is irrelevant a true nonsequitor) Sure one could count up all the features DB2 has and decide which features are the same regardless of platform and which aren't. I am sure that well over the majority of features are the same across platforms. (I'll accept that as a fact.) However, some deeply fundamental and core features are not the same and don't work the same. That smacks of the poor coordination and design. Not something one would usually expect from IBM. Jim Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 18:24:40 CST