Frankly, I expect that Oracle will become more competitive with licensing .... I'd give it a year at the outside and we will see it. I could be wrong of course.... I've been wrong before. RF 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 ----- Original Message ---- From: Ed Long <rdhm99a@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 9:48:08 AM Subject: Re: Coke switches to DB2!! I've seen more switches to Oracle over the last 3 years than away,usually from DB2 for z/OS. Given the $ IBM is pouring into DB2 for LUW (UDB) development, and things like the Oracle SQL emulator, the intense price competition between the giants will accelerate this account snatching IBM has a long history of making emulators that work just good enough to generate FUD, so do expect this one to be viable for many shops. Edward Long --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Coke switches to DB2!! > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 1:03 PM > 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