Re: Universal Server / Datablade questions

pbrown@triplerock.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Brown) writes: > Informix DataBlades and IBM extenders are technically quite close. The > key difference is in the two organization's business models. IBM have > elected to make their extensions internally. They have their own > text, image and so on. If a customer wants to extend DB2, then IBM > lets them. See the Don Chamberlain book on _The_New_DB2_ for coverage > of how IBM does this. Informix use partners to actually write the > extensions, which allows Informix's engineering to focus on the > core engine. Oracle have no extension API, and instead their own > engineers extend the engine to hit the 'important' extensions. (If > your business objects aren't on their list, then you're simply > not 'important' enough). Informix is doing some blades on its own, including, curiously, blades for certain third-party products like Verity's full-text engine. Seth -- Seth Grimes -- grimes@access.digex.net -- http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes grimes@magnet.com -- http://www.magnet.com