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| rkusenet said: > > "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com> wrote \ > >> I was in a database futures meeting here the other day and I brought up >> the >> whole IFMX to DB2 Arrowhead thingy.... Senior management looked at me >> and >> asked, "How much longer does IBM need?" > > I don't believe there is any Informix to DB2 convergence. What will happen > is > that lot of Informix features will go to DB2. Now that is different from > merging. > > DB2 is process based architecture. Informix is thread based. Db2 has no > concept > of checkpoint. A page can not be modified more than once, before it is > written > to disk. How smart :-). > > There are too many differences between them to merge. Nothing is impossible to an organisation with the technical depth and organisational capability of IBM. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list |