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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anton Britz
>
> Hi Guys..
>
> [ snip ]
>
> Last point on DB2 : I hope you are aware that the current
> DB2 customer base did not even go for V8. I am not sure what
> V9 offers you yet but IBM could not sell V8 to their existing
> customer base for various reasons that I am not fully aware ...
Probably one major impediment to its "early" implementation was the
**requirement** for a z/Box (64-bit architecture) on which to run it.
-jc-
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