[rescue] Re: Being jobless

Mon Jul 28 12:21:55 CDT 2003

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:11:04PM -0400, vance at neurotica.com wrote:

> > On a related note, what about other "enterprise grade" databases like
> > SAP DB, or Firebird.  Both appear to have much enterprise usage...
> >
> > Anyone tried any of them on nice beefy SMP machines (particularly, Irix,
> > Solaris, or HP-UX)?
> 
> DB2 runs really nice on big IBM mainframes.

Yes, I'm quite sure it does.  But that configuration costs big bucks,
where as SAP DB or Firebird on a nice E420R is not so big bucks.  Thus,
the question about people's experience with them.