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Re:Ellison on IBM: "In databases, they are a decade or so be... by hga on Thursday January 28, 2010 @12:49PM (#1084454)
DB2 LUW is serious and great (or it was in the mid-late '90s, and a heck of a lot less painful to set up and administer than Oracle), but isn't mainframe DB2 a different code base with a variety of differences and quirks? And how many people know how to do System Z administration or applications programming?
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Re:Ellison on IBM: "In databases, they are a decade or so be... by derwiki on Thursday January 28, 2010 @08:34PM (#1085585)
System Z DB2 is written in a completely different language than Express-C. I'm not sure there's even code overlap.
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