[rescue] Re: Being jobless

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Mike Meredith wrote:

> > > DB2 runs really nice on big IBM mainframes.
> >
> > Yes, I'm quite sure it does.  But that configuration costs big bucks,
> > where as SAP DB or Firebird on a nice E420R is not so big bucks.
> > Thus, the question about people's experience with them.
>
> DB2 also runs on Solaris (and Linux).

And HP/UX.

> Not everyone would regard an E420R as a 'beefy SMP machine'.

Not I.

Peace...  Sridhar