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The impending release of IBM's DB2 for Microsoft Windows NT gives network managers leaning toward Microsoft Corp.'s up-and-coming network operating system an even better reason to choose it.
IBM last week gave notice that it was challenging Microsoft for database supremacy on Windows NT by fielding a scalable, cost-competitive version of its high-end database management system.
"Corporations tend to back winners, and, on the NT platform, now you have two behemoths-IBM and Microsoft," said Frank Ingrassia, president of International Management Solutions Inc., Sarasota, Fla.
"I think that, within the client base we serve, we will also see a good battle between DB2 on OS/2 and DB2 on Windows NT," said Ingrassia, whose consulting company has a suite of query costing and analysis tools it is in the process of migrating to Unix and NT platforms.
The biggest impact of the DB2-on-NT product likely is to be among IBM's existing base of DB2 customers, who now have the option of adding the Windows NT platform.
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