Re: EGL demo afterthoughts (long)

Data Goob said: >>From: "Obnoxio The Chav" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> >> >>Data Goob said: >> > Spot on. DB2 is not only strategic it is becoming more and more >>embedded >> > into the product mix from IBM, last I heard it's actually being used >> to >> > manage the OS/400 operating system on the I5 eseries Iserver. ( Is >> that >> > confusing or what :-) I hope I got it right. ) >> >>Cloudscape is being embedded in Websphere. So using your rationale, let's >>chuck out IDS and replace it with Cloudscape in the e-commerce >>environment. > > It's not *my* rationale, it's IBM's. I am not necessarily in agreement > that > they > follow a Microsoft tact of comingling the database and the O/S but what do > I > know about anything. Oh, no, weasel words won't work here, Gooby: you raised this concept as an justification of DB2 being strategic. Don't try and waffle out of this by spinning some bollocks about WebSphere. :o) > Cloudscape by the way got a lot of awards in its prime, but is it > appropriate? I > have no idea. I think Websphere is a bit of overkill for a lot of web > work, > but it > appears to appeal to corporate portal makers. Here in the USA there are > still a > lot of web coders who can't code a web site without an IDE, so Websphere > seems to have a market. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco sending to informix-list