Re: Found this link

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From: Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@Comporium.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: RE: Found this link


>Besides leaving the iSeries out, the only difference between DB2 and
>Oracle9i in their graph was that Oracle could run on Windows and unix.
When
>IBM decided to name the Database in 1994, they named it DB2 for OS/400.
DB2
>is essentially an AS/400 product.  Oracle didn't even include the chart for
>the machine on which DB2 was meant to run!  Surely they're not confused
that
>the iSeries is a mainframe?
>


uhhhhh... no.

DB2 UDB runs on HPUX, Sun Solaris, AIX, Unix, Linux, NT, Windows (some
versions as far back as 3.1), OS/2.

Then there is DB2 UDB for OS/400.
Then there is DB2 UDB for MVS.

There are three different flavors of DB2, the primary being the product out
of Toronto, that runs on everything outside of the AS/400 and S/390 world.

I did not see the comparison that you mention, but if is was Oracle 9i
against the 400, then it wasn't fair.

===========================================================
R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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