DB/2 s***s & middleware (Score 1)

Ok, ok, don't over-react guys ;)
In fact DB/2 really sucks.
It really can't cope with Oracle...
It might be interesting for small applications,
if the price is ok but then, again, you could
also use PostgreSQL or maybe MySQL...
We use DB/2 and Oracle in our applications
(a huge pool of servers, with Tuxedo and TopEnd -
we develop payment systems) and, believe me,
DB/2 is broken and expensive (did you know that
you have to pay an extra license for *every
single connect* ? - you want 10 connects at a
time, you have to buy 10 of these licenses).
The point is that DB/2 _exists_ for Linux, which
makes porting applications that use DB/2 from other Unices (or NT) easy (and we are only waiting on Tuxedo for Linux to port our platform - maybe
we'll wait forever :( )...
Any application existing on Linux is making
Linux stronger against NT.
I think that now that we have office applications
(StarOffice, Corel), databases (Informix, SyBase,
Oracle, IBM), we definately need middleware!