>>> On 7/8/2009 at 9:49 AM, Dave Salt <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend of mine develops applications using COBOL and DB2. To save money, > management at his company is considering converting DB2 to Oracle. My friend > is neither for or against the idea, but has some concerns about how this > might affect him. I know nothing about Oracle or z/Linux, so I thought I'd > pass his questions on and see if anyone on this list might be able to help > him: > > 1) Has anyone ever gone through this, and if so did it actually save money?
I would have to believe that the cost savings would be the reduction in number of licenses required. It's pretty typical that the z/OS LPAR would have far more CPs activated than the Linux one. What I don't understand is why they want to convert to Oracle at the same time. While DB2 LUW is a different code base than DB2 for z/OS, I would think changing to a totally different vendor would involve more risk. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
