Re: well written sql article

["Mike Eovino" <meovino@xxxxxxxxx>]

How do they do user-based pricing for DB2 if I'm using JDBC/ODBC against it?

Mike E.

On 4/12/06, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I see from the pricing of the p5 is that DB2 is where the money
> is at for IBM. The p5 hardware and OS is priced as a loss leader to
> get customers to pay $124 ( small systems ) and $311 ( big systems )
> for every user of DB2.  Would be great if this was the pricing scheme
> for the i5.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On 4/12/06, Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Steve -
> >
> > You'd think they'd be good at it by now...
> >
> > Although Oracle is credited with bringing the first commercially available
> > SQL database to market, IBM developed SQL for the 'System R' database in the
> > 70's.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:04 AM
> > Subject: well written sql article
> >
> >
> > > sql is something IBM is doing a very good job at:
> > >
> > > http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg041206-story01.html
> > >
> > > -Steve
> > >
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