IBM's 'Stinger' Pokes Holes in Oracle's Open-Source and Grid

[zVlad]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1759% ... 5%2C00.asp

"....VA Software uses DB2 to run the sites that form the beating heart of the open-source community, including the Open-Source Development Network (OSDN) sites freshmeat, Geocrawler, Linux.com, NewsForge, Slashdot and Sourceforge.net. With that venerable list of open-source sites, it's not surprising when IBM puts out customer testimonials, including one from OSDN, that point to Big Blue as being one of the perceived "good guys" in the open-source community. ...."

"....Just why is open source so important to both IBM and Oracle? Because it's one place where Microsoft can't compete. ..."

"....Now, I haven't seen recent IDC numbers on who rules the database world, but Schiff's guess is that Oracle's still king of the market when it comes to the pure relational database numbers. What happens when you throw the mainframe into the mix? It's IBM all the way, Schiff opined. .."

More technical details here:


"IBM buzzing about Stinger database beta release"

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/ ... ger_1.html

"... Whereas Oracle has been emphasizing grid technologies with its recent Oracle10g database, IBM believes its ancillary DB2 Information Integrator technology allows IBM databases to participate in multi-platform grids as opposed to what Picciano describes as Oracle’s single-vendor solution.

“Oracle’s grid support is only available for other Oracle databases in a homogeneous environment. Their grid support is great as long as everything else in your grid is an Oracle databases,” Picciano said. ..."