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New Very good! Is the UDB part what was Informix?
Alex

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
New Not yet...
IBM has actually had a Unix product since about 1994, now called DB2 Universal Database and has Unix, Linux, Windows and OS/2 versions.

I like it, but I can also see how many Unix experts would feel more comfortable in Informix.

Informix is still a separate product, but IBM is now "cross-training" DB2 and Informix developers in the early phases of moving to a joint product. People I talk to say that a complete "combined" product is still probably 24 months away.

SAP, Seibel, PeopleSoft and other CRM/ERP vendors are now lining up on DB2 on Unix because of Oracle's attempts to attack these vendors (who are their customers) in the application space. These CRM/ERP vendors are fed up and IBM is taking advantage of the opportunity.

It's a good time to get into this space, because:

1. IBM is moving mainframe customers into Linux mainframes and guess what these run? IBM DB2 UDB.

2. The CRM/ERP issues I discussed above.

3. IBM is 1/4 of the list price of Oracle in smaller configurations, and can be even 10 times cheaper in the smallest configurations.

4. People are just sick of Oracle.

5. As DB2 and Informix merge, the new combined product will have better Unix/Linux integration.

6. Finally, most people I know seem to think that Oracle really does run terribly on Linux (particularly Red Hat distributions).

Glen Austin
New Thanks.
Looks like [link|http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_oracle1.html|Red Hat and Oracle and Dell] are teaming up. So that situation may improve.

The bit about Oracle competing with their customers and how they feel about it may be true, but be careful about what you've been told by IBM marketing types. They do have a way coloring reality sometimes. If the ultimate customer, say Bank of America, is using Oracle and wants Peoplesoft to do something for them, Peoplesoft is not going to tell the "Sorry, we don't do Oracle.". Besides, IBM has a similar competitive situation with some of their customers.
Alex

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
New "Unix product"? Also OS/400 and originally mainframe, right?
New Still OS/400 and mainframe product, too
New Didn't mean to imply otherwise; "born on the MF", I meant.
New ah, gotcha...you are correct.
     Meet the New DB2 UDB (Unix, Linux, Windows, OS/2) DBA! - (gdaustin) - (7)
         Very good! Is the UDB part what was Informix? -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (6)
             Not yet... - (gdaustin) - (5)
                 Thanks. - (a6l6e6x)
                 "Unix product"? Also OS/400 and originally mainframe, right? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3)
                     Still OS/400 and mainframe product, too -NT - (slugbug) - (2)
                         Didn't mean to imply otherwise; "born on the MF", I meant. -NT - (CRConrad) - (1)
                             ah, gotcha...you are correct. -NT - (slugbug)

No. It's "MIDDLE-Endian"!!!
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