Spirit, that article you're replying about is several years old, and beyond that I doubt Ants has anything to do with Sparta. But the concept is similar - simplify, boost performance, and save money. From the old article:
" Many of the customers on Wall Street have DB2 licenses allowing for unlimited deployment. So the ROI is simple; Make the migration easy, ANTs makes it mindless;"
With "unlimited deployment" you should save alot of money moving to DB2, but that's not the only issue. From the article "Ants Compatibility Server" on the web site:
"Database proliferation is understandable, but it is no joke. The more databases an enterprise supports, the more variants of test and development, quality assurance, patching, and end-user training must be maintained."
And from the same article. Another reason for the ACS.
"Migrating the data in a database is merely hard. Recreating all the procedures of the old database on the new is much more difficult. Few businesses can afford to incur a hiatus of database functionality, so they need an intermediate step."
Some other things to keep in mind. These Sybase customers may not be as easy to entice this time around. They now have SAP wanting their business and SAP has more resources than Sybase ever did. Even without the software issues SAP might have been part of the problem under Kozak. But, it is my understanding that the new architecture does not have to be re-written (time and money) when a new version is desired e.g. Oracle to IBM, Microsoft to Oracle, etc. Stay tuned. This story is going to get very interesting.
