Re: An interesting meeting with IBM

Data Goob wrote: > DB2 8.1 is available today for Linux. I am not an IBM rep > and do not represent IBM in any way shape or fashion. As an > end-user who is evaluating DB2 I am extremely pleased with > what I see with a real evaluation of the product. Compare > DB2 to everything else on the market and I don't see how you > arrive at anything but DB2. Informix people should be quite > pleased that IBM markets DB2 just about as badly as Informix > marketed Informix. They should feel right at home with superior > simplicity poorly marketed. About the only thing missing in > DB2 is better replication that I can live without, and no > onstat command that you can build yourself with enough > ambition. Other than that the architecture is similar enough > and the company legitimate enough that warrants spending > the money on it. IBM ain't going anywhere, and DB2 is used > by enough institutions that need the reliability that it > basically lives on with a great reputation. No bells and > whistles, it should appeal to Informix-SE people more than > anyone else. By the way, can you manage memory at the table > level with Informix? Or Oracle? Check out DB2. You can't > do that with any of the others. Is can do this with SE? I not found how? -- Enor