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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 18:30 UTC

IBM is set to deliver a free version of its enterprise DB2 database software on Monday, following in the footsteps of competitors Oracle and Microsoft as they fend off the adoption of open source offerings MySQL and PostgreSQL. IBM DB2 Express-C only limits the hardware that the database can run on, but is otherwise identical to the full-fledged DB2 release. The software can be installed on machines with up to two AMD/Intel processors, and utilizes up to 4GB RAM. There is no limit to the size a database.

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Suspicious...

by setuid_w00t on Mon 30th Jan 2006 21:44 UTC

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2005-10-22

If you build a system around this DB and then IBM stops offering DB2 for free, you are going to have to pay up or never upgrade.

Just something to think about...

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RE: Suspicious...

by ChiliJ on Tue 31st Jan 2006 06:26 in reply to "Suspicious..."

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2005-08-12

Why would they do that? The same thing can be said for the free versions of Oracle and SQL Server.

If their goal of doing this is to respond to MS/Oracle's free databases, then they'll probably only pull the plug when Oracle and MS do so.

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