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DB2: IBM’s New Weapon – Analyst Blog
Zacks Market Commentaries (September 16th, 2009) Writes:
International Business Machine (IBM) is getting plenty of new SAP Business Applications clients who are switching from other database software to IBM’s DB2. This new database software provides an attractive alternative because of its lower cost, advanced analytical capability and higher transactional performance.
IBM claims that customers are slowly moving to its DB2 Database from Oracle (ORCL), which is arguably the world’s biggest supplier of database software, to derive higher performance at a lower cost.
Recently, Coca Cola Bottling Co. (COKE) moved from Oracle to IBM DB2 Database for implementation of the SAP ERP application. While DB2 reduces storage requirements by almost 40%, IBM is also of the opinion that it lowers the time of batch runs by more than 65% and thus improves overall supply chain efficiency of the customer.
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