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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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Free DB2 is cheaper than MySQL … again!

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

How can something that is already free be cheaper? I will get to that in a minute. DB2 Express-C is IBM’s way of offering a full function commercial grade database management system using “open source business model”. DB2 is not open source i.e. you will not be able to go to SourceForge download source and hack database [...]

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