From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 20 17:14:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16348 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles155.castles.com [208.214.165.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16322 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA48100 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812210111.RAA48100@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:11:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith Subject: Re: IBM DB2 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To: undisclosed-recipients:; ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM DB2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:22:16 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:11:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith > > For those running Linux emulation and want to try IBM's DB2: > > http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/linux/ > > I just wondered since when these companies started to became charitable companies? I dunno about "charitable", IBM could give DB2 away and just live off shares in RAM vendors. Anyway, I'm looking at this one now; it's a real monster (and only a beta, remember), but it's documented at least an order of magnitude better than anything else I've encountered in this domain to date. If someone wants to make this one their personal mission, it looks like it's a *very* heavy shared memory consumer. Our shared memory semantics are quite possibly not up to it, so that's going to be somewhere worth studying carefully. - -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message