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   From: neil.truby@ardenta.com   
      
   "Mark A"  wrote in message   
   news:91P8b.820$TJ.101480@news.uswest.net...   
      
   > You seem to be judging the databases based on market share. Maybe in the   
   UK   
   > DB2 is not popular, but in the US it is doing very well against Oracle. MS   
   > SQL Server is also doing well. Oracle is loosing market share, which is   
   not   
   > surprising since the pretty much owned the market at one time.   
      
   To be clear, you're talking about DB2 UDB, right?   
   In the UK, for sure "DB2" is very popular, because of all those mainframe   
   installations (and because every AS400 has DB2 USB installed on it whether   
   used or not).  But in the UNIX/Linux/NT market DB2 UDB is a marginal player   
   by comparison with Oracle and particularly - as you say - the fast-growing   
   SQL Server.   
      
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