It seems to me that this is correct, and well addressed by the article, it also rather looks (pace the reference to Mogen's blog in this thread) that a driver was to lead the dba team away from dba work and into SAP basis work. Niall On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Aragon, Gabriel (GE, Corporate, consultant) <gabriel.aragon@xxxxxx> wrote: > Puff, huge lost for oracle, but the most important point here (for me) is > that this will require to change your entire DBA team or give them a quick > training on DB2. BTW, I have never used DB2 but, doesnt it only run on AIX > and IBM boxes? I mean if you have Oracle running on Sun, HP or Win, you will > have to change not only Oracle licenses. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Robert Freeman > Sent: Miércoles, 07 de Octubre de 2009 12:03 p.m. > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Coke switches to DB2!! > > Any comments on this event? I'd be less shocked if they said SQL Server. I > did some DB2 work maybe 2 years ago. Not a product I was all that impressed > with. > > > http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid41_gci1370485,00.html?track=NL-333&ad=729260&asrc=EM_NLN_9464382&uid=5340789# > > Robert G. Freeman > Oracle ACE > Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! > Author: > Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY > SOON! > OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide > (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g > New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles > Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info