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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (85732)	7/24/2002 4:30:59 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Constantine, Re: "I think that's what we've been saying all along. A few header changes and a full recompile and most apps should work ok on hammer....." Until now, I had trouble grasping how easy it could be. I've done software porting before, even between similar architectures, and if the code isn't written very well, you can run into a lot of problems! Fortunately for DB2, the developers programmed it exceedingly well. I wonder what the prospective user base is for DB2 under Linux, especially since IBM hasn't committed to selling any hardware with Opterons included (though they may soon enough - IBM seems to be a company that likes to hedge, and they have the money to do so). wbmw