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

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Joe Pluta wrote:

> > lately, it has been my fear that IBM is going to replace DB2 for
> > the AS/400 with mySQL, because it is open software.
>
> What's REALLY sad, Carel, is that there are some AS/400 professionals who
> would argue that this would be a good thing.  This opinion baffles me.

I doubt that AS/400 types would argue that *replacing* db2 with mysql
would be a good thing, but there are probably more than just me who
believe that mysql is a good thing.  Personally, I want RPG's standard I/O
(chain, read, setll, etc.) with mysql's API.  IOW, when programming in RPG
using SQL dump the cumbersome embedded SQL stuff and do things the MySQL
way.

James Rich