RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. Re: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments??? (Don)
>
>The next questions you need to be asking are regarding the database.  How
>will IBM be marketing DB2...especially since Larry Ellison is the big 800
>pound gorilla on the block with Oracle...  And, will IBM ever unpackage
>DB2 from the current os/400 package and start charging for it as a
>seperate option as they do the database engines on all their other
>boxes...:)


Hmmm... an iSeries without integrated DB2...

Certainly seems odd. What would be done with no integrated DB2? What languages 
supporting what functions? No external file descriptions? Hmmm... They could 
call the whole package something catchy like "eSAA".

Tom Liotta

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