"John Carlson" wrote in message
> Didn't see that anyone posted this in the newsgroup.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/IBM-Snaps-Back-with-Response-to-...isons-I
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9149883/Database_wars_IBM_Oracl..._Elliso
Nice spot, John. All quite humorous.
>> Ellison: "IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is
>> good on everything else-x86 and all others. It's too bad DB2 can't run on
>> modern machines. Can't scale either-the most [instances] you can have of
>> DB2 is one."
Don't get me wrong, I like DB2 and think generally it gets an unfair press
on cdi. But this *is* the commonly-held opinion. If only IBM had a
first-rate database system designed specifically for sub-mainframe that
*did* perform excellently in this area, eh?!
I don't think there is any comfort here at all for we Informix advocates.
It reinforces what we have known for some years now: that our product is so
irrelevant to today's db market that it's virtually never commented upon.
And we all know why that is ....
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