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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

Comparing Free databases: Oracle XE vs DB2 Express-C

June 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Before I get too far in to this I’d like to get a couple of things straight:

I am biased and
I actually like Oracle XE but I like DB2 Express-C more … see point 1

Now that I got this off my chest, I wanted to do a quick comparison between these two products from the two [...]

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Tags: DB2 · Oracle