2.1.1  Benefits of migrating to DB2 UDB
DB2 UDB is number one in performance and number one in market share, with 
more than one million user licenses world wide. DB2 UDB offers open, 
industrial strength database management for e business, business intelligence, 
transaction processing, and a broad range of applications.
Some primary motivators for migration are: 
Multi platform support
DB2 UDB is a true cross platform database management system (DBMS), 
running on a wide variety of systems including Linux, Windows 
98/NT/2000/XP, Solaris, HP UX, and AIX .
Improved performance
DB2 UDB has leading performance across a broad range of application and 
industry benchmarks on a range of hardware and software platforms. To have 
a look at some current performance measurements, please visit: 
http://www.ibm.com
Industrial reliability and high availability support
DB2 UDB provides superior availability with customer proven results. 
Industrial scalability
DB2 UDB has the best scalability. Only DB2 UDB does transaction 
processing and business intelligence scaling to 1000 nodes. For more 
information about scalability see:
http://www.ibm.com
Integrated support for native environments
DB2 UDB conforms to many standards including the operating system it 
supports. It maps closely onto internal resources for performance and 
scalability. All these considerations make it more reliable and integrate it to 
the operating system.
Integrated system management tools
DB2 UDB Version 8 introduced a number of new tools like the 
Health 
Monitor
, the 
Health Center
, the 
Replication Center,
and the 
Storage 
Management
tool. In addition it includes major improvements to existing tools 
like the 
Configuration Assistant
, the 
Control Center,
and the
 Development 
Center
.
Self managing and resource tuning capability
DB2 UDB also has included self managing and resource tuning database 
technology that lets database administrators choose to configure, tune, and 
manage their databases with enhanced automation. The innovative database 
manageability means administrators spend less time managing routine tasks, 
and more time focusing on tasks that help enterprises gain and maintain a 
sustainable competitive advantage.
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