sold its open-source Ingres software to a new organization, Ingres Corp., which is aiming at the enterprise market.Īmong the Big Three database makers, IBM is the last to release a free version. MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system, and last year, Computer Associates International Inc. The free database market is getting crowded.
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Customers interested in support services from IBM will also need to upgrade to one of IBM's commercial DB2 options.ĭB2 Express is priced at $4,874 per CPU or $625 per server, plus $124 per named user. The new, DB2 Express-C software lacks a handful of features found in DB2 Express, including DB2 Warehouse Manager tools, Informix data source replication and DB2 Connect support for extending enterprise data to applications. IBM first released an Express version of its DB2 software in 2003, aiming the less-expensive database software at smaller organizations willing to trade scalability restrictions for a lower price. It also should help them drive experimentation with their native XML capabilities."īut Jerry Murphy, an analyst at Westport, Conn.-based Robert Frances Group Inc., said "IBM is coming a little late here to counter what Microsoft and Oracle have already done, in terms of having a ¿free' offering that works in limited environments." At least it should help them propagate DB2 in mixed shops where they already have a foothold. "Every vendor, whether tradtional or open-source, has to have an essentially free low-end offering.
"How much this drives the adoption of DB2 is a different matter," he said. and a Computerworld columnist, applauded IBM's release of a free DB2 that is limited by memory size, rather than the number of users or the database's size. Curt Monash, a database analyst in Acton, Mass.
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