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Re: DB2 Database to Run 4 Flavours of GNU/Linux

__/ [ Da'Punk-A ] on Saturday 10 June 2006 13:13 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> IBM's DB2 9 'Viper' database to fully uncoil July 28
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | DB2 9 will initially ship on Microsoft's Windows operating system, IBM's
>> | AIX flavor of Unix and a number of Linux distributions including Red
>> | Hat, Suse, Ubuntu and Mandriva, Picciano said.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1785333609;fp;2;fpid;1
> 
> FOUR flavours of Linux?!  But that's ridiculous!  Everyone knows that
> offering the user a choice is absolutely the wrong thing to do.  I have
> often read, here and elsewhere, that Windows users will only migrate to
> Linux when there's only one distro to choose from.  Whether that distro
> is suitable for the user or not is entirely irrelevant - Windows fans
> like being told what to do, apparently, even if they're told to do
> something that's totally wrong.
 
Nobody ever gets fired for choosing SUSE; Or Red Hat; Or Ubuntu... (I hope
you see the sarcasm here)

By the way, Dell consider Linux to be an "industry standard", as of Thursday.
Expect this to make a big difference when the IT manager is set to make an
O/S choice for desktops and servers. GNU/Linux is now officially a
mainstream platform, as perceived by a large OEM. Dell also sell SUSE, as of
yesterday.

Best wishes,

Roy

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