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Don, lately, it has been my fear that IBM is going to replace DB2 for the AS/400 with mySQL, because it is open software. The pro sitte of oss: as a big company you do not have to maintain the product yourself. And I do not like to put (some/more) stupid ideas in others' heads, too, so let the rumour die, quickly. Regards, Carel Teijgeler *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1-4-03 at 20:31 Don wrote: >The next questions you need to be asking are regarding the database. How >will IBM be marketing DB2...especially since Larry Ellison is the big 800 >pound gorilla on the block with Oracle... And, will IBM ever unpackage >DB2 from the current os/400 package and start charging for it as a >seperate option as they do the database engines on all their other >boxes...:)
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