DB2 Universal Database Express Edition is a new specially tailored full feature relational database for small and medium business. DB2 UDB Express Edition features autonomic management capabilities for self-administration, self-tuning and self-healing into the database which increases reliability while reducing complexity and required skills. The Configuration Advisor provides facilities to configure the DB2 UDB Express Edition environment to optimize performance and the Health Center monitors your DB2 system, alerting you to potential DB2 operational issues, and provides advice about resolving them.
Go here to get the Linux DB2 v8.1 Express CD sent to you for free.
This is great news…I have always been a DB2 fan. I have used Oracle but prefered the performance of DB2. IBM continues to contribute to the solid foundation of Linux in the Enterprise environment.
DB2 is fine but still too expensive for many businesses. The “cheap” version IBM started to offer seems to not be suited for Web usage (so much for e-commerce)
Also, no *BSD support sucks (although I heard FreeBSD Linux-emulation works fine with DB2).
A while back, I read that the codebase for DB2 for each platform was different. i.e. they developed a separate version for each platform that was compatible.
Is this (still) true?
i think they all have the same code base, but there is no universal release version. eg: UDB 8.1 does not match our AS400 (v5r2 is 7.something). etc. so aix, os400,z/os, linux/windows all get different releases. os400 is usually the last to get the update since its way more mission critical.
It seems everyone is concerned about MS SQL server. I guess, the big iron players need to develop a market at the midrange. Sybase is in trouble squished from both sides.
It seems everyone is concerned about MS SQL server. I guess, the big iron players need to develop a market at the midrange. Sybase is in trouble squished from both sides.
And it doesn’t help them that Postgres is getting better and better.
A native Windows port will be very powerful in this domain.
…is a piece of crap. Both from technology and administrative point of view. I have a version that’s about 1.5 years old on one of my boxes and it cant figure out how to use multiple CPUs. Anytime an intensive query is run, it just hammers on one of the CPUs. They obvioulsy don’t know what threads are…
It’s the beginning of the end for big central database servers made by companies like Sun. Why buy one of those when you can build a database cluster out of several small x86 systems running GNU/Linux? Personally I forsee the complete demise of Solaris and SPARC servers in the next 2 years, as Intel releases 5GHz processors, when SPARC is clunking along at 1.2GHz
Hah why are you complaining about lack of BSD support? The BSDs will never get commercial support due to their license and complete inferiority in all respects to GNU/Linux. For databases you need an OS with good SMP and threads that can scale to hundreds of processors. GNU/Linux can do this, can BSD? No.
IBM has chosen GNU/Linux because it is the best and most powerful free OS out there. There are literally millions of people working on GNU/Linux, and only a hundred or so working on BSD. Because of this, GNU/Linux will only continue to become even more technically superior to BSD. Linux kernel 2.6 will be out before FreeBSD 5.2 comes out, and from there GNU/Linux will simply leave BSD in the dust.
It’s the beginning of the end for big central database servers made by companies like Sun. Why buy one of those when you can build a database cluster out of several small x86 systems running GNU/Linux?
jahahahahha that is the funniest thing I have heard in ages. several small cluster x86 do not a data warehouse make.
you obviously have no idea what a ‘large DB server’ really is.
No, you are the ignorant one. You don’t know about recent advances in Oracle’s clustering technology. Small server clusters are soon going to be capable of replacing large monolithic servers.
Regardless, we’ll see Sun servers replaced as the backbone platforms of databases. Altix systems will soon be replacing Sun systems.
The CD is supposed to be sent without charge. If it’s free, why should I give personal information to IBM ? It’s like saying : “Hey pal, this pencil is free. I’ll give it to you in exchange of your birthdate, bank account number, etc.”
I know my post is out of topic, but, maybe all the data miners out in the wild should give us a break !