IBM released a free version of its flagship DB2 database today, sweetening the pot by eliminating some of the key user limits imposed by rival vendors. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database Express-C is ...

Following the lead of its major competitors, IBM Monday announced it is offering a free version of its DB2 Express database targeted at developers operating at the low end of the market. Called DB2 ...

A good part of the tectonic shifts in this space are owed to a degree of consolidation. In the past year, Oracle has taken over Sun Microsystems, which was the purveyor of the MySQL platform (the "M" ...

Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, has launched a virtual appliance of IBM's DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform in private and public cloud configurations.

IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products. DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the ...

In an act of masochism I decided to port one of my applications from Linq-to-Sql with Sql Server Express to NHibernate with DB2 Express-C.<BR><BR>On the plus side, it does work. But outside of that, I ...

Zend Technologies and IBM are expanding their partnership in the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) application development space Wednesday, focusing on IBM's DB2 database. Featured in the arrangement are ...

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DB2 Express-C is a free version of IBM's flagship database aimed at winning software developers over to its products. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...