Re: Oracle and IBM -- Grudge Match

Art Kagel wrote: > IDS has been on an appliance and is installable as an option on both the > IBM and the Amazon clouds. The IDS Z-series appliance was announces at > the same time as the DB2 based appliance. And, God help me, DB2 has had the Balanced Whorehouse available as an appliance since forever as well. > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gumby@hotmail.com > <mailto:im_gumby@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > The real embarassing part is that IDS will smoke them both. Which is > why IBM won't do an IDS benchmark. ;-) > (Aww now the secret is out. IBM doesn't want to start an internal > war. ;-) > > Of course Oracle is now on an 'appliance'. DB2? Not there, nor is IDS. > > Maybe Jerry can get IBM to put IDS on the appliance instead of > DB2... ;-) > > But hey! What do I know? My head is in the clouds. ;-) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.