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Re: A glimpse into the history of Db2

On 12/27/2017 12:49 PM, Matt Olson wrote:
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> With programming budgets stretched thin, I am betting they wish they took the approach back then that Microsoft took with SQL Server 2017 which now runs under Linux using a single code base.
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I am glad they didn't though. In the write up he mentions how that would cripple them all because of the inability to leverage the architecture of z and i particularly.

It is a dream of course to have a code base that is write once run everywhere and we all know how well that has worked for JAVA over the years... :-)


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