Hello again from Gregg C Levine I thought penguins were small birds to begin with? (Sorry I thought a joke was in order.) Every time I've experimented with a database for a customer, it's been MySQL on Intel. Distribution neutral, since the customer was of the kind that would not know one from the other, if it bit him. We did look at, Oracle on, (ugh!) Sun, but the ROI was lousy, also the customer had massive problems with funding. MVS and DB2 was considered, but since the same customer wasn't familiar with IBM's mainframe operating systems, it wasn't worth the effort. Also, the same customer, now wants me to re-write an entire database formerly running on Oracle, on Intel, and yes, from Mr. Bill's shop, we're planning on looking at Linux, and MySQL. But not on Intel, probably, going to go towards an IBM mainframe solution. If the customer can create the funding. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jim Sibley > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LINUX-390] Where are your databases? > > In another thread (Whither ....) it was the general > consensus that people like lots of little linxues. > > So, where are your databases? Distributed databases? > Small databases that fit into something less than a > TB? Other hardware and other OS? > > One popular answer I've heard is DB2 MVS. Another is > Oracle on Sun? > > Anyone using Linux for a database server? > > ===== > Jim Sibley > Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley > > "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
