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Database forecast for Phoenix, AZ on Dec. 8, 2010: partly cloudy with DB2 v10 info

If you are in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, December 8 free up your calendar from noon to 4pm and come to the SWARUG (South West Area Regional User Group) meeting. Whether you are a DB2 for z/OS veteran, DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows pro or have never worked with any DB2 before, you will find lots of material to help you stated or to bring your database career to a new level. I (Leon Katsnelson) will lead a discussion and a presentation on how to leverage Cloud Computing and other new technologies as well as social media to [...]

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See you at IDUG EMEA in Vienna

I am about to get on an airplane to go to Vienna Austria where I will participate in the anual International DB2 User Group (IDUG) EMEA Conference. Vienna is a great city (too bad the forecast calls for rain) and the IDUG conference is in a perfect spot in Vienna. There will be copious consumption of beer Wiener Schnitzel and apple strudel chased by excellent coffee. Coffee was actually introduced to Europe via Vienna but I digress. As great as Vienna is, I am not going to travel half way around the world and suffer from jetlag just to get [...]

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Comparing Free Databases: Oracle XE vs IBM DB2 Express-C 2 years later

With Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL it is quite clear that Oracle XE is at the end of its road. DB2 Express-C on the other hand has been continuously enhanced with cutting edge features. And unlike Oracle XE which takes you to a dead end, DB2 Express-C provides a very clear growth path that wil take your application where it needs to be no matter how big its needs to be and how fast it needs to get there. I believe that with MySQL replacing of Oracle XE at the low end of the portfolio, it makes more sense to compare DB2 Express-C to MySQL than Oracle XE. I think I will do just that in one of my future posts. I will say, however, that with today’s price reduction for DB2 Express, MySQL is at a big disadvantage. [...]

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A different view on a “Database Appliance” concept

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 the industry [...]

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