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Re: If there were a sufficient money stream in the "ma and pas", IBM would

On 8/2/06, Mark Allen <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

what about all the stuff that is "thrown in" the i5/OS that you have to buy
seperately on other boxes (security comes to mind first)


AIX and Linux have that. ( guessing )   The DB2 on the p5 has user and
group security built into it.   Is administering the IFS on the i5 any
easier than administering the file system of AIX or Windows? I dont
think so.  An i5 that is serving SQL procedure result sets to
distributed clients is not an install and forget system. Not like the
equivalent green screen application.

-Steve

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