RE: Java versus RPG on iSeries

dan,

>Is DB2 *not* considered "industrial strength?"

Depends on how you define industrial strength of course.
1)Performance is probably comparable in raw form.
2)The Oracle toolset and PL/SQL are far in advance of iSeries DB2.
      Oracle is far more configurable at the lowest level and supports
        numerous extensions to SQL that enhance its usability.
3)Depends too on how much credit you give the iSeries underlying
architecture.
        Some of the things that help small to medium users can kill very
large
        database users.
4)Underneath it all is my point that some of the performance
      limitations of the Java J2EE world can be mitigated by the
      back end database.

On non-iSeries db2 is catching up pretty quick since they seem to
do a release a week. Not sure what this is doing for stability tho.

Regards

Konrad