OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Odd]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Christopher
>> Chan<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>
>>> I doubt that banks run everything on Windows. Most likely Solaris or
>>> some other UNIX will be at the core. Any bank or stock exchange that
>>> converts fully to Windows and trumpets it deserves what they get.
>> A lot of banks, stockbrokers, and other big firms run their core systems
>> on IBM mainframes, a big box with DB2 as the SQL database. Their
>> desktops are fairly often Windows, though.
> 
> You think?  None of the mainframe users I've worked with would run DB2 (or 
> any rdb) for anything except end-user reporting, with the DB2 database 
> populated nightly out of IMS.

What kind of database software do the ones you've worked with use?

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Odd