RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seriously... I don't see IBM drastically changing the iSeries anytime soon.
It is too stable of a system to trash with other options.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carel Teijgeler [mailto:coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:18 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???


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

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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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