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(DATABASE 2) A relational DBMS from IBM that was originally developed for its mainframes. It is a full-featured SQL language DBMS that has become IBM's major database product. Known for its...

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(DATABASE 2) A relational DBMS from IBM that was originally developed for its mainframes. It is a full-featured SQL language DBMS that has become IBM's major database product. Known for its industrial strength reliability, IBM has made DB/2 available for all of its own platforms, including OS/2, OS/400, AIX (RS/6000) and OS/390, as well as for Solaris on Sun systems and HP-UX on HP 9000 workstations and servers. See DB2 UDB.



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  • IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers

    Big Blue released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and...

    News items | April 23, 2009 9:54am PDT

  • IBM may open source DB2

    While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market conditions may make it unavoidable.

    News items | June 16, 2008 7:27am PDT

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  • IBM launches DB2 10, InfoSphere 10 with eye on big data

    The new software is designed to integrate with big data systems, compress data and provide quick data warehouse querie

    Blog posts | April 2, 2012 9:00pm PDT

  • IBM launches 'pureScale': Front runs Oracle's database attack

    IBM on Friday will launch a new database technology dubbed pureScale, which is designed to up the ante in transaction processing. The news comes ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld powwow next week....

    Blog posts | October 8, 2009 9:00pm PDT

  • IBM: IT failure and social media disaster

    IBM's recent DB2 fiasco in the Philippines is a textbook case combining Devil's Triangle failure and Twitter disaster.

    Blog posts | June 2, 2009 9:26am PDT

  • IBM's Devil's Triangle: An enterprise software soap opera

    IBM faces lawsuits and public embarrassment in the Philippines over a failed government project involving the company's DB2 database product.

    Blog posts | May 29, 2009 9:24am PDT

  • IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers

    Big Blue released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and...

    News items | April 23, 2009 9:54am PDT

  • From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

    An introduction to the "human resources" component of the typical data processing center we've been exploring.

    Blog posts | August 1, 2008 12:15am PDT

  • IBM to open-source DB2?

    Big Blue is looking into bringing its widely used database software under an open-source license, a U.K. director acknowledges.

    News items | June 16, 2008 12:14pm PDT

  • IBM may open source DB2

    While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market conditions may make it unavoidable.

    News items | June 16, 2008 7:27am PDT

  • Flickr brings tagging to vintage images

    Pilot project puts hundreds of public-domain pictures on photo-sharing site. In return, Library of Congress asks for tagging help.Photos: Library of Congress uploads

    News items | January 17, 2008 1:34pm PST

  • Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate

    Speculation mars Burton Group report that suggests Microsoft's OOXML document format is preferable to ODF, says OpenOffice.org.

    News items | January 17, 2008 8:24am PST

  • IBM business partner develops greenhouse meter

    One of the toughest things about being a technology VAR or reseller is finding a way to "productize" your intellectual property. Otherwise, your tech guys find themselves building custom solutions...

    Blog posts | December 12, 2007 5:41am PST

  • IBM giving away social networking

    The IBM Symphony tools the company is now giving users free is aimed at nothing less than jump-starting a social revolution in the workplace.

    Blog posts | September 18, 2007 11:54am PDT

  • IBM to release near-ready DB2 Viper database

    Looking to unseat Oracle, Big Blue to provide a release candidate of DB2 Viper, generally available by midyear.

    News items | April 6, 2006 4:00am PDT

  • 'LAMP' start-up warms to free DB2

    ActiveGrid releases lastest open-source tool set for building front ends to business applicatons.

    News items | February 1, 2006 5:38pm PST

  • IBM sets DB2 database free

    DB2 Express-C is a free version of IBM's flagship database aimed at winning software developers over to its products.

    News items | January 30, 2006 2:19pm PST

  • IBM may offer free DB2 database

    Big Blue could "potentially offer" a free starter edition of DB2, as part of a strategy to win over developers to its database product.

    News items | November 18, 2005 4:08pm PST

  • Newsburst : Help

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    News items | December 10, 2004 3:22pm PST

  • IBM to bring automation to DB2

    The "Stinger" release of DB2 Universal Database, due at the end of the year, will incorporate features from IBM's research on autonomic computing for simplifying administration

    News items | May 3, 2004 4:00am PDT

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