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Monday, January 30th, 2006

DB2 is FREE! (Beer)

I almost glanced over the Slashdot post – looks like IBM is following the likes of others like MySQL, Oracle, and MS SQL with a free version of DB2 called DB2 Express-C. It’s not open source, but free is always good. If you’ve never used DB2, it’s a rock solid database server that scales very well. You could start a business on this free version and scale it to a mainframe if necessary.

You can download it here and there’s a support forum setup here. Warning: the 300MB Linux install is not for the bandwidth challenged. There is a Windows install… but who the heck would need that??

I’m already looking to see if it will run on Gentoo… hopefully a positive report back soon.