>>To put it in perspective, there are approximately 230,000 Oracle licences.
>I'm not getting the perspective here - how do I compare these two? >(should we add the number of Windows licenses to the comparison?) The perspective I failed to communicate is that ORACLE is the largest licensed DB in the world. With only 6000 mainframe licences (or 9000) as somebody else claimed, what it the maximum number of CICS/IMS/DB2 licences needed? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
