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   @Boecker-OCP.com (Yukonkid) wrote:   
   >   
   >"Rhino"  wrote in message news:<33x   
   d.373$JG5.58933@news20.bellglobal.com>...   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Hi,   
      
   Point made.   
      
   >without going into much religious talking, ask yourself:   
      
   Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.   
      
   >How many OS versions of DB2 are on the market?   
   >How many OS versions of Oracle?   
      
   How?   
      
   >For DB2 you find different databases for quite every platform (OS 390,   
   >UNIX, AIX, mainframe...) - name it. For every problem they have a   
   >database - incompatible between each other...   
   >In Oracle you deal with the same architecture on every OS platform   
   >they support.   
      
   Are you positive about that?   
      
   >Some of the things I like in Oracle   
      
   Do you wonder if you like in oracle?   
      
   >* a lot of features to select from (Oracles index types i.e.)   
   >* the shared sql approach   
   >* multi-versioning and read consistency implementation (SELECT without   
   >being blocked by writes i.e.)   
      
   Those found in their towards world understanding report.   
      
   >yk   
      
   Oh ...   
      
   >at least, all databases return the data that you store,   
      
   Why are you so positive?   
      
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