The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Bruno Sugliani) writes: > Larry Elison : > "I make fun of a lot of other databases—all other databases, in fact, except > the mainframe version of DB2. Its a first-rate piece of technology" > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/In-Larrys-Own-Words/2/ posts from today mentioning early RDBMS and other DBMS work: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#7 My Vintaage Dream PC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#10 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already and recent related post in comp.database.theory regarding working with Ingres, Sybase, Informix (long before it was acquired) and Oracle on some of the cluster scaleup activity http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#26 Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys related post regarding Jan92 meeting in Larry's conference room http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 There was some discussion in the period about these other vendors possibly porting to same platform as (mainframe) DB2 (differentiated from totally different non-mainframe DB2) ... and one of the barriers was feeling that they would have to perform 300 mainframe disk drive configuration regression tests as part of a competitive port (and the incremental business didn't appear to justify such an activity). At the time, they were more than willing to leave that market segment to mainframe DB2. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
