Would be interesting if the "i" flavor of DB2 could be better marketed
as a competitor to Oracle than aix with it's OS/2 based DB2.


Steve Richter wrote:

> wait a minute. I thought QA was a selling point for open source.  
> This system of ours is fading into oblivion. The only ways to save it
> are massive R&D by IBM or open sourcing the entire OS.  Either way it
> should run on the p5 and be priced at AIX and Linux levels.  IBM
> should use the OS as a way to sell DB2 and p5 hardware.
> 
> -Steve
> 

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