Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:35:17 -0400
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Joe Pluta wrote:

DB2 for i can't win because the naysayers complain because it HAS features that other databases don't have - namely the ISAM access that makes it so blazingly fast. Anybody who knocks ISAM because it's not "pure SQL" isn't looking at things from an unbiased standpoint, they're simply picking nits.

And they're looking at it from a *technical* viewpoint, not a *business* viewpoint.

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