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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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DB2 for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Since database people typically value stability above all else recommending Ubuntu 8.04 LTS just makes sense. As a matter of fact, Canonical has recently released its second maintenance release for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. If you are looking for a Linux distro to run DB2, Ubuntu v8.04 LTS deserves to be at the top of the list. [...]

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