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The demise of the open source fanatic

August 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single [...]

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Tags: Conferences · DB2 · EnterpriseDB · Ingres · MySQL · Open Source · Oracle · PostgreSQL · Random thoughts · SQL Server

DB2 Express-C at OSCON 2008 in Portland

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

We will have a pedestal in the exhibit hall at the O’Reilly Opens Source Conference 2008 that is on this week at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. While sessions and tutorials pass does cost but money admittance to the Expo Hall is free. If you are at the conference on Wednesday or Thursday stop [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Linux · Open Source

IBM may open source DB2

June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

“IBM may open source DB2″ is the headline headline in today’s article by Tom Espiner on ZDNet.co.uk. The article is based on the interview with Chris Livesey, IBM UK director of information management. I posted a comment on the article but I figured I’d provide a more complete explanation here in the blog.
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Tags: DB2 · Open Source