Follow me on TwitterAs 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 [...]
