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Despite owning DB2, IBM's support of Sybase is reasonable

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Dec 10, 2004
9:16 AM EST 		This posture by IBM can also be attributed to myophia, since it views DB2 as an enterprise, big iron relational database. The thinking at IBM might also be biased by history and the need to tweak the opposition, i.e. Microsoft. Regarding history: MS's SQL Server was a veritable twin of Sybase version 4.x running on NT. It was only later when MS began to put its stamp on the Windows database in version 7 and 2000 that it significantly diverged from its parent. Even now the SQL language, Transact-SQL, is shared and has much in common on both databases. Moreover, Sybase markets itself offering a smooth transition from SQL Server to its ASE version on Linux. Hence, IBM could see supporting Sybase as a weapon against MS in the lower end RDBMS systems.

Well at least it helps Sybase (where much of my expertise resides). [In my opinion, Sybase is the better tool compared to both SQL Server and Oracle.]

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