> The only product they've ever built was their flagship RDBMS
Which relied on cloning IBM's SQL implementation back in the day. Odd to see them now arguing APIs should be proprietary...
> still fills a niche no one else can really compete with.
Not really true. DB2 will do everything Oracle DB does, and more (12c is only now adding the multitenant capabilities that DB2 has had for a long time). IBM don't do as good a job of marketing it, though.
Which relied on cloning IBM's SQL implementation back in the day. Odd to see them now arguing APIs should be proprietary...
> still fills a niche no one else can really compete with.
Not really true. DB2 will do everything Oracle DB does, and more (12c is only now adding the multitenant capabilities that DB2 has had for a long time). IBM don't do as good a job of marketing it, though.