RE: More news from IBM: DB2 re-emerges as a hybrid server

I thought it had something to do with DB2 running on Ethanol. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:34 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: More news from IBM: DB2 re-emerges as a hybrid server François Dénommée wrote: > Read in the last current issue of DataTrends: > > "* DB2 re-emerges as a hybrid server > By Kathleen Richards > > IBM's 5-year development of the DB2 9 data server may offer technology > that was worth the wait. In particular, DB2 9 can handle relational > and native XML data, allowing DBAs to query across relational and > non-relational data repositories at high performance rates using SQL, > XQuery or XPath at the user interface. This hybrid capability-if it > performs as promised in real world applications-has positive > implications for data management, integration and service-oriented > architectures. > > For the rest of this article, please go to: > http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=27717 > " Thanks! Great article. Good to see how they are bringing the product forward. Looks like the DB2 marketing department has lined up people to talk about the product in the trade magazines and the press. Very good strategy for the product line. Didn't notice that the author had anything to do with the DB2 user community, but I guess it doesn't really matter, they got some press going. > > Nothing about informix > It _was_ a DB2 article, hard to understand why they would talk about Informix. > Francois _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list