As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.
Not that kind of an appliance
Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of [...]
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Just like in real estate, location plays a huge role in making data relevant. When it comes to computing, we are no longer chained to our office desks and a large Windows machine. The computing device of choice today is an iPhone, or an a new Android based device, not an old and clunky desktop PC. The new generation and the new population uses phones to compute. In India alone, 15 million mobile telephone subscribers were added every months in 2008. That is like getting the entire population of Canada – every man, woman and child – as [...]
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This week I had an opportunity to spend some time at the annual MySQL conference in Santa Clara California. This is the second time I attended this conference. Last time I was at the MySQL conference was in the Spring of 2008 and the big news then was SUN acquisition of MySQL for a cool billion $s. This time it was Oracle swallowing SUN. So, when I was ready to go I was really curious to see how the conference would have changed and what the mood of the community would be.
Here are my highly subjective impressions. [...]
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IBM is running a 3-day virtual event for developers focusing on Cloud Computing. I will be presenting a session on Prototyping and Developing Database Applications in the Cloud on Thursday April 8 at 2:30 EST.
Development and Test has emerged as the leading use case for cloud computing because it delivers maximum benefit with minimal risk compared to other cloud computing use cases. When it comes to DB2, we have it fully cloud enabled. I plan to talk about the benefits and the challenges of leveraging the cloud and practical approaches on how to get started right away [...]
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This week we were at Lotusphere 2010 demonstrating DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations. One of the giveaways we had was a free book on DB2 Express-C. The book proved top be very popular and we ran out very quickly. I also got a lot of questions from people who did not have an opportunity to go to Lotusphere if there was a way to get a copy of the book. My answer is “absolutely, as long as you don’t mind getting it in an electronic form”. A real paper book that you can flip through is always nice [...]
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