Re: [AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Joe Kondel
I've seen it in the wild in financial institutions (mainly banks) running on as/400 or iSeries boxes. Most would then use products like datamirror to migrate it out of db2 and into sql server, etc.. to run their reporting packages against. best, Joe Kondel On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Mat Ko

Re: [AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Mat Kovach
Bas Scheffers wrote: Mat Kovach said: I see many large scale sites that run UDB/DB2. I know of at least three sites that have, easily, 1000 UDB instances running. I lot of people > What kind of sites are they? What industries? Large data centers, mainly for finance and logistics companies.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Manning
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:47 +0100, Bas Scheffers wrote: Who uses DB2? Is it any good, or much like IBM's other software? Just about every IBM midrange system comes with DB2. There are an awful lot of AS/400 or iSeries out there and there were a lot of System/36 and System/38's as well.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Bas Scheffers
Mat Kovach said: > I see many large scale sites that run UDB/DB2. I know of at least three > sites that have, easily, 1000 UDB instances running. I lot of people What kind of sites are they? What industries? Cheers, Bas. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this li

Re: [AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Mat Kovach
Bas Scheffers wrote: In that regards, IBM to me has always been a shocking example with WebSphere, MQ, Tivoli Access Manager and Lotus Notes, the products I have had the misfortune to work with. So what about DB2? Apperantly, IBM (with it's Informix and DB2 product lines) has about as much market

[AOLSERVER] Databases (was : The quality of our community (was Re: [AOLSERVER] Retrieving oid from INSERT))

2006-04-10 Thread Bas Scheffers
Mark Aufflick said: > I also want to say that I was joking in the comment quoted below. Weak > technology (especially expensive weak technology) gets me a little hot > under the collar sometimes but I don't think there was any real In that regards, IBM to me has always been a shocking example with