[geeks] Careeer shifting

[joshua d boyd]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:41:56PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > What is better?
> 
> I gather that DB2 on a mainframe tends to whoop it's ass, but I don't
> know any specifics.  

Would the *nix versions of DB2 or the AS400 versions be better than Oracle
also? 

> While I'm thinking of it, I just found out that they replaced the S/390s
> at my dad's office with some new IBM mainframe.  Anybody know anything
> about these?  I'd like to take a stab at the mainframe world, but it
> seems to be one of those "closed systems".

Err, I'd say that they are either Z servers (which is still s/390 pretty
much), or they are AS/400s which I don't usually think of as mainframes,
but that is where they get sold on Ebay.

> P.S.  Why isn't the E10000 a mainframe?  It comes with a mainframe
> pricetag...

I was just asked the answer that recently, and had a rather hard time.  

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Joshua D. Boyd