RE: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Hello All! Tim Schaefer wrote: >Maybe the newer DB2 Universal will have more features and tools but I >doubt it. There's a lot of catching up to do on this one. Just in >looking at the future of NT, this market will become even harder to >penetrate when NT 5.0 comes out, with the newer Transaction Server >and SQL packaging with the OS. According to the latest dribble >from Computerworld, Microsoft is clearly headed for the UNIX Server >market. Interestingly there are more and more UNIX server hardware >latforms heading to the pentium chip for an architecture. >I'm very curious to hear from Informix on when and how they plan >to take advantage of Transaction Server. This is something that >appears to be "maturing" in the Microsoft domain. I agree, the Microsoft products are gaining maturity. However, regardless of whether Microsoft headed for UNIX market or not, NT invaded mostly the NetWare' s market niche. It becomes more amazing because NT is heavier than many of the UNIX systems (IMHO, it's the same heavy as Solaris, definitely heavier than SCO and SunOS and much heavier than Linux), while NetWare was always positioned as a light server. BTW, server market doesn't allow to level Crays and 486 to 'common least denominator' by writing disk I/O in HTML. So, IMHO, it seems to me that now isn't a good time for monopolies... Regards Igor I. Lisyansky