Re: Gartner Study on DBMS Identifies Spending and Deployment Trends

On 6/19/06, Dave Odom <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You all might want to study the info at the link below.  IBM uses it to
show how well the real DB2 is doing.  You'll notice the System i5 and
DB2/400, as I've said all along, is not even in the serious running;
although it should be.

Interesting study, No mention of DB2 Viper:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/v9/xml.html

Being able to store database tables as XML documents is huge. As I
imagine it, using Viper you can join from a DB2 order detail table to
an XML document containing what was shipped today a warehouse you have
outsourced to.

The thing is you need a lot of CPU to do database transaction serving,
esp when some of your data is stored in xml documents. That is why we
need to be able to run i5/OS on fast, market priced p5 hardware.

-Steve