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Affaires : IBM annonce une version
gratuite de DB2 : DB2 Express-C Data Server
IBM INTRODUCES DB2 EXPRESS-C DATA SERVER
No license charge, no database size limit and no user
limitations
ARMONK, NY, January 30, 2006 - IBM today announced
the availability of DB2 Universal Database Express-C
(DB2
Express-C), a versatile and easy to deploy data
server openly available for download, at no cost,
to customers,
developers and partners.
With DB2 Express-C, IBM is increasing its commitment
to enabling and supporting the growing community of DB2
developers and customers by offering a no-cost version
of the product, making it easier for them to create and
deploy applications and solutions that meet their changing
information management requirements.
DB2 Express-C offers the same core DB2
data server in a smaller package specifically designed
for use in software
development, deployment, redistribution and embedding
within applications. No charge community support for
DB2 Express-C is available via a new public forum on
developerWorks, IBM’s resource for developers,
with optional for-fee support offered by IBM.
DB2 Express-C supports the Windows and Linux operating
systems on various 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures.[1]
Several of these Linux distributors have also announced
that they will now include DB2 Express-C in their Linux
distributions.
“The partnership between IBM and Novell is focused
on delivering Linux solutions to the market that enable
customers to meet their requirements for IT and network
infrastructure workloads”, said David Patrick,
Vice President & General Manager - Linux, Open Source
Platforms and Services Group for Novell. “We support
IBM's initiatives to enable more IT professionals to
evaluate and deploy DB2 Express and look forward to working
together to bring to market compelling solutions based
on DB2 Express-C and Linux.”
DB2 Express-C may be deployed on all systems up to 2
processor cores, and on AMD or Intel x86 with up to 2
dual core chips. With this offering there is no limit
to database size. The maximum amount of memory supported
is 4GB.
DB2 Express-C offers broad development environment flexibility.[2]
Additionally, clients can seamlessly upgrade from DB2
Express-C to any of the DB2 Universal Database editions
which support larger servers or server clusters.
The future “Viper” version of DB2 Express-C
will include the industry’s first hybrid data server
for managing both relational and XML data – a critical
requirement for building and deploying high performance
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
“We are expanding our investment in growing the
community of developers and users of DB2,” said
Bob Picciano, vice president of data servers for IBM. “With
DB2 Express-C, developers now have the industry’s
first no-cost, fully functional relational data server
to use for developing and deploying applications.”
Developers using a wide variety of development environments
can draw on resources like developerWorks and alphaWorks
to gain access to no charge IBM technical resources community
support and emerging technologies from IBM research and
development laboratories. Skills and applications developed
with DB2 Express-C are directly applicable to the entire
DB2 family.
No-charge community support for DB2
Express-C is available via a new public Web forum on
developerWorks (www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=805&cat=19)
with optional for fee support offered by IBM. IBM also
announced that it has established a DB2 Express community
team to nurture community participation and work with
a variety of developer, ISV and open source community
organizations.
For more information on DB2 Express-C visit www.ibm.com/db2/express.
Source : IBM
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