Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Pablo Sanchez wrote: >Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in >news:1063677908.937277@yasure: > > > >>Great in theory. But consider this ... I want to build an >>application and sell it to customers at ten different locations. >> >>My choice ... buy my own Windows, AIX, AS/400, and OS/390 machines >>matching my potential client's environments ... or ... put a C >>compiler on their box and recompile. It isn't that big a deal ... >> >> > >You're missing a fundamental step in the software life cycle: QA. > >You're going to need to QA your application across the different >hardware platforms which means you're going to need to have that >hardware at your shop. If you don't, you're asking for trouble. > >You do the above whether you are using DB2, Oracle, etc. It turns out >that DB2 leverages that QA hardware for application compilation. :) > > Only if it matters. Consider a situation where it is irrelevant. In other words ... where there are no differences ... same source code, same compiled code. Then it is a minor consideration. I missed nothing. -- 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)