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   From: rhino1@NOSPAM.sympatico.ca   
      
   One of my friends, Scott, is a consultant who doesn't currently have   
   newsgroup access so I am asking these questions for him. I'll be telling him   
   how to monitor the answers via Google Newsgroup searches.   
      
   Scott has heard a lot of hype about DB2 and Oracle and is trying to   
   understand the pros and cons of each product. I'm quite familiar with DB2   
   but have never used Oracle so I can't make any meaningful comparisons for   
   him. He does not have a lot of database background but sometimes has to   
   choose or recommend a database to his clients.   
      
   Scott has enough life-experience to take the marketing information produced   
   by IBM and Oracle with a grain of salt and would like to hear from real   
   DBAs, especially ones who are fluent with both products, for their views on   
   two questions:   
      
   1. What are the pros and cons of the current releases of DB2 and Oracle?   
      
   2. What other sources of *independent* information are available to help   
   someone new to databases choose between DB2 and Oracle?   
      
   This is *not* a troll and we don't want to start a flame war! Scott just   
   want some honest facts to help him decide which product is best at which   
   jobs.   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)