Re: database market share 2003
A thread on 2003 database market share. datab0y speculated Oracle's Linux growth came from Solaris migrations and DB2 stayed flat because IBM customers stay on AIX. Daniel Morgan said he was migrating systems from Solaris to Linux and rated AIX 5L highly. Mark Townsend said that explanation did not look right but gave no details.
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gnuoytr@rcn.com (robert) wrote in message news:<da3c2186.0406180428.6141e79e@posting.google.com>... > Mark Townsend <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<40D27407.1000902@comcast.net>... > > <snip> > "IBM has slipped slightly, with its growth > > coming mainly from customers' recommitment to mainframe DB2, and > > continued strong growth of mainframe DB2 tools for DBAs > <snip> > > i hereby gloat for all of those who have asked the question, on > this thread-that-will-not-die: is IBM fudging its numbers with > MF stuff. going ab-fab nowhere on linux. I heard that a lot of oracle growth in linux was due to migrations by customers of solaris to linux. Think the DB2 flat rate might be due to more IBM customers staying with AIX than Sun customers staying with Solaris? Not to say that AIX is better than Sun, but it certainly has a more solvent & solid company behind it. I typically recommend solaris for oracle, but these days it seems like everyone wants to go with linux instead of solaris. DB2 on the other hand works best with aix - but those ibm p-series boxes are pretty cool, not much more than intel, and can run either aix or linux.
datab0y@yahoo.com wrote: > I heard that a lot of oracle growth in linux was due to migrations by > customers of solaris to linux. Don't know that anyone can comment on that other than Mark and he may not be able to comment for obvious reasons. But I can tell you that I am currently looking at migrating three production systems from Solaris to Linux. Though the hardware may remain Sun. > Think the DB2 flat rate might be due to more IBM customers staying > with AIX than Sun customers staying with Solaris? Not to say that AIX > is better than Sun, but it certainly has a more solvent & solid > company behind it. Well I'll say it ... AIX 5L is probably the best *NIX O/S on the market. > I typically recommend solaris for oracle, but these days it seems like > everyone wants to go with linux instead of solaris. DB2 on the other > hand works best with aix - but those ibm p-series boxes are pretty > cool, not much more than intel, and can run either aix or linux. With Oracle my first choice, if budget wasn't a concern would be IBM hardware with AIX 5L. But bring in budget considerations and I immediately start looking at Dell or Compaq/HP 1U boxes with RedHat Linux. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)
> > I heard that a lot of oracle growth in linux was due to migrations by > customers of solaris to linux. > Surprisingly enough, that doesn't look like it's the case. More can't be said, but some absolutely fascinating things seem to be happening in the market at this time.
Damn - broke my own ceasefire (sort of). Apologies, let peace reign. Mark Townsend wrote: > >> >> I heard that a lot of oracle growth in linux was due to migrations by >> customers of solaris to linux. >> > Surprisingly enough, that doesn't look like it's the case. More can't > be said, but some absolutely fascinating things seem to be happening > in the market at this time. >