Mainframe COBOL » zingers http://www.mainframecobol.info We know what COBOL stands for Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Database wars: IBM, Oracle’s Ellison trade zingers http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/01/database-wars-ibm-oracles-ellison-trade-zingers/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/01/database-wars-ibm-oracles-ellison-trade-zingers/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:01:47 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=206 Ellison: “They are not competitive in the database business except on the mainframe. I will grant you that the two best databases in the world are IBM on …

Ellison: “Take IBM’s DB2 database for Unix, what they used to call UDB. For OLTP applications, how many can they group together? Um, one. So when you’re attacking a really big job, that’s all they can do, one server. It can’t scale out, …

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