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> corporations change is slow because there are significant sums of money invested in people and procedures. That said, IBM DB2 is very much in the same boat.
by chenster 10y ago
> corporations change is slow because there are significant sums of money invested in people and procedures.
That said, IBM DB2 is very much in the same boat.
- rodgerd 10y agoDB2 is a bit of a different kettle of fish for a few reasons: * DB2 rolls new features in at their top pricing tier, then trickles them down. So things you could only get in the top tier in 9.5 (for example) are now available in Workgroup edition in 11. Oracle keeps very old features (e.g. partitioning and encryption) as expensive add-ons. * DB2 is still pushing out new features. PureScale has (for example) moved from parity with RAC (clustering in one datacentre) to well beyond it (metro clusting across a region). * DB2 respects pretty much any VM technology for sub-capacity licensing. Oracle pretty much require you buy OVM. Top-tier DB2 and a fully loaded Oracle DB are pretty similar pricing (depending on the specific deals you can obtain from your account manager), but DB2 keeps moving, and many of the features you might care about can be had in much cheaper editions. The problems DB2 face are mindshare (easier to find DBAs for Oracle, many people still think of DB2 as a "mainframe thing"), and there's still quite a few "enterprise" apps that only support Oracle DBs.