RE: IBM Gives Away DB2
Not a technical support thread — it's a short news/opinion exchange. A post linked an eWEEK article about IBM releasing a free DB2 Universal Database Express-C (Community Edition) aimed at developers, embedding and the LAMP crowd, plus mention of the upcoming "Viper" hybrid relational/XML server. One poster used this to argue he'd been right to suggest IDS go open source and to predict "Bye Bye Informix!"; another replied only that the IIUG wouldn't let Informix die. No technical problem is posed and no resolution or substantive discussion follows.
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"Bye Bye Informix!" The IIUG will not let that happen... -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 1:52 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IBM Gives Away DB2 Graham Smith wrote: > The last of the database giants is adapting to the demands of > all-you-can-eat, no-money-down, open-source code, with IBM set to roll > out a freebie DB2 version on Jan. 30. > > DB2 Universal Database Express-C (Community Edition) will offer the > same core > DB2 server, but in a smaller package, designed for application > embedding as well as software development, deployment and redistribution. > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1916097,00.asp They scoffed when I suggested IDS go Open Source... guess it wasn't so far off the mark now was it? A waste of time with MySQL...riiiiiiiiiiight! "We're making DB2 more accessible to "the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-Perl) community of users," Spang said. "This gets exciting as we update DB2 Express later this year with the DB2 Viper update. It will include the industry's first hybrid data server, serving both relational and nonrelational data structures. Bye Bye Informix! _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Hamilton, Jerry wrote: > "Bye Bye Informix!" > > The IIUG will not let that happen... > That's all you can say?