RE: No future for DB2

>>I have seen 9i and 10g shops that don't use RMAN. I believe that would be because these shops might still be trying to decide whether to trust oracle and rman. We tested for about 6 months before starting to implement, and still are not totally implemented. Rman was not very good when it came out so I have been told. We did not have such fears when moving thru Informix's ontape, onarchive, and now onbar backup utilities. ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================ sending to informix-list

Sebastian, Norma J. wrote: >>>I have seen 9i and 10g shops that don't use RMAN. > > > I believe that would be because these shops might still be trying to > decide whether to trust oracle and rman. We tested for about 6 months > before starting to implement, and still are not totally implemented. > Rman was not very good when it came out so I have been told. What you have heard is accurate. The problem is that people look at an initial implementation and, mistakenly, assume that future implementations will be no different. Thus the people that think OPS became 9i RAC became 10g RAC or that 10gR1 RAC is 10gR2 RAC. A product, and its features, must be re-evaluated with every release. And right now there is nothing on the market better than RMAN unless you spend huge sums of money for an EMC or NetApp with flash mirror / flash restore capabilities ... and even then I'd rather have RMAN. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)