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Robert Yong in his post tries to speculate and pontificate. One thing about speculation is that you will likely get things wrong. And he gets it wrong on every

Robert Yong in his post tries to speculate and pontificate. One thing about speculation is that you will likely get things wrong. And he gets it wrong on every point. He does not have any insight in to what went in IBM. Take it from someone who does. Just because someone has a blog does not make him an expert.

ableal 16y ago
(Late notes, mostly to jot down a few URLs; also, the R.Young post I linked to above got further debate) - At http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084150 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084150, late in 2009, there had been some debate on the merits/etc. of DB2. - R.Young is giving the "DB2 9.7 freebie" a spin under Linux: http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2010/06/bill-teds-excellent-adventure.html http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2010/06/bill-teds-excelle... - A bit of search led to a series of articles by Chris Eaton. List at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw, best practices to configure DB2 guides at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw/best-practices-for-db2-for-luw-24982 http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw/best-practices-for-db2-fo... - Another post in that series includes a comment which clarifies what is and is not included in DB2v9.7 Express-C: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw/db2-97-announced-by-ibm-i-think-it-has-something-for-everyone-31292#2724772 http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw/db2-97-announced-by-ibm-i... ["What is not yet included in Express-C is PL/SQL support, CLPplus or build in package libraries (DBMS_PIPE, UTL_SMTP, etc)."]