>From the article: "It's possible, Martin says. "COBOL applications typically are seen in terms of data-serving types of workloads and back-end types of processing, so if we looked at it, we wouldn't necessarily look at COBOL per se, but we would look at in terms of database connectivity and such," she indicates."
As I've been predicting for some time, a DB2 offload engine. I wonder when that idea was first mooted? (Answers chiseled on stone tablets to the usual address.) Another take on DB2 from today's Register: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/01/18/db2_neglected/ -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

