Re: database market share 2003

"Mark A" <ma@switchboard.net> wrote in message news:<c9vuc.76$XJ.51654@news.uswest.net>... > > You can't call the fact that I, personally, have never run into > > DB2 on Windows nonsense. And you sure can't dig your way out of it > > by making reference to HP and Sun hardware unless you are somehow > > equating Solaris with a Microsoft product. > > > > So I'll try the statement again ... I ... that means mean personally, in > > 35 years in this industry ... seen DB2 on Windows in any organization > > that didn't have DB2 also on another IBM platform such as a mainframe > > or AS400. > > > > I can not be wrong about my personal experience. > > > > If you wish to prove that my personal experience is somehow skewed and > > not representative of the database market as a whole ... then here's > > how you can do it. > > > > Publish official numbers showing the number of DB2 licenses, on MS > > Windows, that are in companies that are not also using DB2 on mainframes > > or AS400. Simple. > > > > -- > > Daniel Morgan > > I didn't say anything about your "personal experience." I just said your > comments are nonsense. If you prefer: "your [limited] experience is > non-sense." > > > I have seen many DB2 installations on Windows. Since you live in Washington > state, where there is an extreme MS bias, most companies use MS SQL Server > on Windows. That combination is strong, but not quite as dominant in other > parts of the country. > > > > Excluding all companies that also run DB2 on OS/390 and AS/400 is quite > restrictive. I believe that are over 2000 companies who use DB2 on IBM > mainframes. The number of companies that run AS/400 (or I series) is in the > tens of thousands, and DB2 comes with the OS. when did it stop being DB/400?? and the poster's point: unix/nt DB2 installations as the SOLE platform are rare in his experience. mine too. hard numbers can disprove this. i've not gotten all the way up-to-date on this thread, so i eagerly await. (by the way, i don't hate DB2. i dislike the MF version compared to UDB, though) robert > > > > So you seem to be excluding a huge percentage of the largest 5000 companies > in the US (most of whom have at least one IBM mainframe running DB2 or an > AS/400 which comes with DB2). > > > > So your comments are ridiculous (again). Double-talk. Non-Sense.