Re: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

You're not seriously suggesting that DB2/NT is a mediocre database engine because of the lack of a "sexy" interface??? We're talking db-ENGINES, man... Powerpoint... ------------------ Dag Sunde Softwarer Engineer Orion Systems As Oslo, Norway Tim Schaefer wrote in article <33BAEC0A.8AF90DA6@mindspring.com>... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Yeah, I looked at the NT version just to see what the buzz is all about. >The interface sucks! Gives me the creeps. > >Did they send the DB2 team for NT to a special school to make the >interface >as gawd-awful as it is? It is absolutely the most bland, boring, yucky >interface out there. Don't know about the performance, but it reminds >me >of the old IBM look-and-feel: I Build Mediocrity. ALL the windows are >in >black-n-white! No color... Amazing... Flat-files would be a better >choice. >:-) > >Another interesting point. The on-line documentation is >characteristically >IBM, and you have to fire up each help file separately. This is majorly >sucky software. Informix has nothing to worry about with the NT >version. >You can put Visual Aged for Java in this catagory too. Yech! > >:-) > >Just my penny... >-- >Tim Schaefer \\\\|// >tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) >------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- >http://www.inxutil.com >