IBM To Expand DB2 To Sun, NT Clusters --
Massively parallel processing version of database to
be certified by PeopleSoft
By Joy D. Russell
IBM plans to challenge database leader Oracle next year by releasing
DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Extended Edition with support
for Sun Solaris and Windows NT clustering environments. Also,
effective this week, the massively parallel processing (MPP) version
of DB2 will become the first MPP database to be certified by
PeopleSoft.
Until now, DB2 Universal EEE has run only on IBM's AIX. "We're
seeing a huge amount of interest [from customers] in Sun and NT,
which is being driven by the Internet, Java technology, and
Web-based processing," says Jeff Jones, program manager for data
management marketing at IBM's Software Solutions division in San
Jose, Calif.
IBM's move may make it the No. 2 database vendor, passing
Informix, by the end of 1998, says Merv Adrian, an analyst at Giga
Information Group in Cambridge, Mass. IBM could even have a
shot at stealing the No. 1 slot from Oracle, he says. "It's a strong
offering from IBM," Adrian explains, "because the Unix market is
increasingly being used for mission-critical applications and it's not
going to be easy for others like Sybase and Informix to keep up."
Northeastern University in Boston uses DB2 Universal EEE on AIX
and is deploying four enterprise-wide PeopleSoft modules that
include the university's human resources, student administration,
financial, and alumni-development departments. Bill Goedicke, the
university's associate director for client-server, likes DB2's native
support for Java Database Connectivity. "Although Oracle is
JDBC-capable, IBM is more closely integrated with Java
applications than Oracle is," he says. "Java is going to continue to
grow, and having that connectivity is important to us for supporting
our diverse applications."
Copyright (c) 1997 CMP Media Inc.
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