IBM trumpets not blowing By Mark Whitehorn Published Wednesday 18th January 2006 16:30 GMT
"DB2 is the most respectable and most powerful database engine in the world: it’s the pinnacle of database development. IBM makes a claim (undisputed to my knowledge) that more structured data is stored in DB2 than in any other database engine.
Certainly, according to the Winter Corporation’s 2005 survey, the largest OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) databases in the world are hosted on DB2. The volume prize goes to the Land Registry at 23.1 TB and the prize for the number of rows goes to UPS – 89.6 billion; both run on DB2."
Hmmm If you look at the forum, it does appear that people are downloading and using it on linux. One person is even asking how to get it working with Php.
Hmmm If you look at the forum, it does appear that people are downloading> and using it on linux. One person is even asking how to get it working with> Php.
Oracle has a whole mini-site dedicated to the subject. People have been trying to get PHP working with Oracle for a long time <snicker>. My own experience in this matter dates back about 8 years.
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