RE: MYSQL on AS/400....

Duh...no! That would be a step in the wrong direction. The best thing
(for i5/OS) would be for them to enable "linking" MySQL to DB2 tables.
I5/OS IS a viable product...IBM marketing isn't where I would go for
marketing assistance....


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:48 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MYSQL on AS/400....

On 4/26/07, Darrell A Martin <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, Steve:

Outside groups getting control? I think not. Influence, input, yes to

both

-- and a good thing, in my opinion. The Linux community is the model

for

that effect at IBM. But Big Blue will give up significant control of

the

platform only after the keyboard of the last working i/400 is pried

from

underneath the cold dead fingers of the last user in the Solar System.

another hopeful side of this is that it is a waste of resources for
IBM to maintain two DB2 products - one for AIX, the other for i5/OS.
If the MySQL people are moving to integrate their database with DB2
then maybe they will push for IBM to unembed the database part of
i5/OS ( so it could be deleted ). If we got rid of i5 hardware and
the integrated database, i5/OS would be a much more viable product.

-Steve