XPost: comp.databases.informix, comp.databases, comp.databases.ibm-db2   
   From: ma@switchboard.net   
      
   > >DB2 is good on Unix, Linux, and Windows also. DBA's don't like DB2   
   because   
   > >it takes fewer of them to operate and they think there are more Oracle   
   jobs   
   > >in the marketplace.   
   > >   
   > Couldn't possibly be the lack of security without Tivoli or other   
   > similar products?   
   > Couldn't possibly be the lack of training classes?   
   > Couldn't possibly be the lack of books?   
   > Couldn't possibly be the fact that you need a C compiler on a production   
   > box?   
   > Couldn't possibly be the lack of third-party tools and applications?   
   > Couldn't possibly be ....   
   >   
   > And this from someone with 10+ years of DB2.   
   >   
   > In short ... there are plenty of reasons why someone might not like DB2.   
   > Which does not mean I am one of them. But rather to try to pin it on   
   > DBAs is a bit of a farse. Oracle, itself, is currently redesigning the   
   > DBA's roles and responsibilities to be less RDBMS management and more   
   > and more integration with application servers and other components. The   
   > idea that Oracle is hard to manage is just a repetition of mythology: It   
   > is no longer true. Just as many things about DB2 that were true five   
   > years ago are no longer true.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Daniel Morgan   
      
   Those might be good reasons (if they were all true, but I don't agree that   
   they are) for a manager to make that decision in favor of one product over   
   another. But 90% of DBA's only care about the state of the job market and   
   how their skills match up to that market.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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