With DB2 v9 data compression is comming "out-of-box"... that's might be one of the arguments... I have noticed that from quality of support and from the cost perspective it's usualy better combination (at least in last few years): SAP-DB2 Siebel-Oracle DB Peoplesoft-Oracle DB Examples? OBIEE (former Siebel Analytics) to DB2 v9 certification was released by Oracle less than 3 months before DB2 v8 support was dropped by IBM (April 30th). Needless to say that 3 months is not enought time for customers to test applications with supported database version. At the same time OBIEE is certified with Oracle 9, 10, 11 (different releases). Regards Mike Navickas Oracle&DB2 DBA ________________________________ From: Rich Jesse <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, October 7, 2009 1:18:56 PM Subject: Re: Coke switches to DB2!! This part of the article must've been the kicker: "Our R3 production database was about 1 terabyte when we started the migration, and we got about a 40% improvement in compression during the migration," Advanced Compression licensing was the key, I'm sure of it! ;) (this time I'm winking!) Rich > 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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l