posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 11:15 AM
by
amachanic
DB2, CLR hosting, and DB2 fans up in arms...
Michael Otey discusses the fact that IBM beat Microsoft to CLR hosting in a database product. That's right, DB2 can host CLR stored procedures and functions in its latest version. SQL Server 2005 is yet to be available. So IBM beat MS.
But really, who cares? DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other platforms have had this kind of functionality for years. Extenders, cartridges, blades, or whatever people call them. Usually implemented in Java. So is this really the coup d'etat that IBM wants you to think it is? Probably not. Microsoft was already clearly behind in this technology area and is now catching up.
But the real entertainment isn't from Otey's article. Rather, check out the comments at the bottom. Disgruntled anti-Microsoft people angry with Otey for pointing out flaws in the DB2 implementation.
Maybe they'd be happier if they hadn't had to use Java for so long...