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IBM Sets DB2 Database Free (Beer)

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-as-in-speech dept.

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that in the hopes of winning more developer interest, IBM has released a free version of their DB2 database. From the article: "DB Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on. It can be deployed on systems with two processor cores or up to two dual-core chips on Advanced Micro Devices- or Intel-based servers. The memory limit is 4GB but there are no limits on the size of database or number of users. "

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess if you're waiting to be downsized from some mega corp and want to play around at home with the same crap you use at work this is good otherwise what's the point?