Got this from InfoWorld.  IBM is finally getting to the point where Image
and Adager/DBGeneral/Flexibase/? were years ago.

>
> Posted June 03, 2002 02:31 Pacific Time
>
> TRYING TO ADVANCE the cause of its autonomic computing
> and Project eLiza initiatives, IBM on Monday rolled
> out two new database tools intended to lower
> administrative costs and improve performance through
> self-managing capabilities.
>
> IBM's DB2 Recovery Expert offers administrators
> simplified recovery features along with a range of
> diagnostic and self-managing capabilities designed to
> minimize database outages.
>
>
> For the full story:
>
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/03/020603hnibmrecovery.xml?06
04tuam


Where is says:

""The whole idea behind autonomic computing is to help database
administrators reduce database complexity and improve the quality of their
service. It is generally believed now that system administration can account
for the lion's share of the total cost of database ownership," said John
Charlson, an IBM company spokesman."

What a grand opportunity for Image and MPE, oops, too bad they're obsolete
now...

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> QUOTE OF THE DAY:
> "I think that now it's a time of pragmatism in
> the IT world. Many users have been burned
> because they may have deployed technologies
> that didn't have a clear value proposition or
> they deployed applications that didn't have the
> right infrastructure to scale and, therefore,
> never got the business value."
>
> --Peter Bell, CEO of StorageNetworks.

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I WANT MY MPE!

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