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What I see from the pricing of the p5 is that DB2 is where the money
is at for IBM. The p5 hardware and OS is priced as a loss leader to
get customers to pay $124 ( small systems ) and $311 ( big systems )
for every user of DB2.  Would be great if this was the pricing scheme
for the i5.

-Steve


On 4/12/06, Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve -
>
> You'd think they'd be good at it by now...
>
> Although Oracle is credited with bringing the first commercially available
> SQL database to market, IBM developed SQL for the 'System R' database in the
> 70's.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:04 AM
> Subject: well written sql article
>
>
> > sql is something IBM is doing a very good job at:
> >
> > http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg041206-story01.html
> >
> > -Steve
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