Steve,
They haven't consolidated onto one JVM yet. I would speculate that they
might not. I can understand the reasoning about consolidating efforts
and those things but in some cases it doesn't make sense. The native
JVM can make sense for a decent number of customers. J9 isn't bad and
in some cases is the best solution. But for some of us J9 offers
nothing.
Being different isn't always bad. And opening doors into different
technologies doesn't always mean that the original technology is bad
and/or going away.
Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN 47302
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From: midrange-l-bounces+mike.crump=saint-gobain.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces+mike.crump=saint-gobain.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MYSQL on AS/400....
On 4/26/07, Elvis Budimlic <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"unembed the database part of i5/OS" - this is an absolute horror
scenario.
Integrated DB2 is the BEST part of this box.
just speculating what IBM is up to. they have consolidated on one JVM
for AIX and i5/OS. they like to save money and consolidating on one
DB2 would do that.
Think how many System i DBAs you know. Now think how many Oracle, SQL
Server, mySQL DBAs you know. Or search for these jobs on Monster and
like.
Do you see a discrepancy there? That's because IBM takes care of you!
Yes, you can take care of table extents, creating clustered indexes,
spreading the data across drives etc. but why would you want to?
why would any of this be different if the database was a pluggable
component of the system? The database object provides interfaces
that the OS calls into to provide the seamless end product that you
are describing.
externally described files in RPG, DSPDBR, save/restore - there is
nothing special about DB2 on system i that enables these features.
-Steve
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