IBM Sets DB2 Database Free (Beer)

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 30, 2006 @05:04AM 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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Re:Question for/from the Inept by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2006-01-30 05:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm glad you're happy with MySQL for your personal web site. But what does that have to do with DB2? IBM is trying to attract developers, not small web site webmasters.

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