Migration Toolkit 1.4.9

An interesting new article has been published on IBM developerWorks:

New capabilities for migrating to DB2 and IDS in IBM MTK 1.4.9

The article describes the enhanced capabilities of the Migration Toolkit for porting Oracle applications to DB2 and IDS. Several code samples demonstrate the translation of Oracle syntax to the IBM data servers.

This articles demonstrates once again the rapid progress of Informix@IBM. IBM's database strategy has definitely changed, there is no longer a preference for DB2. IDS and DB2 are emancipated know.

Oracle's already declining database business will be even put under more pressure with this offering from IBM. The decline is no surprise if you listen to the problems of Oracle DBA's:

"The greatest challenge is to keep up with all the Oracle bugs and patch fixes. Even the current version of 10gR2 that we are on has a large number of bugs and issues. Keeping on top of these is a big challenge, considering that we have over 100 databases.” (Oracle DBA working in a large government agency)

However be sure to migrate your application to the right IBM data server, otherwise you might get out of the frying pan into the fire.

The next release of IDS, Codename Cheetah will provide exciting new functionality, that makes porting from Oracle to IBM's Administration Free Zone even easier.

Stay tuned !!