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 place for a week to talk about free software. The best part for me is that OSCON is not fixated on Linux. There were plenty of tutorials and talks on PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails and of course databases. As one would [...]
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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 by the IBM booth 401 and say hello to Leon Katsnelson (me) and Rav Ahuja.
OSCON is all about open source so “free” is presumed. So, with DB2 Express-C we are focusing on what makes it really different from other DBMS both open [...]
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