DB2: What’s in a Name? The name DB2, or IBM Database 2, was first given to the Database Management System or DBMS, in 1983 when IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe platform. For some years DB2, was ...

IBM released a free version of its flagship DB2 database today, sweetening the pot by eliminating some of the key user limits imposed by rival vendors. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database Express-C is ...

Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet IBM has signed an OEM ...

What’s an AI database? If you were to ask IBM executives, they would point you to Db2, the 36-year-old database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the world to power transactional ...

IBM could release a free version of its DB2 database next year, according to a company executive. Teo Wan Ping, IBM Singapore's brand manager for information management, told ZDNet Asia that IBM could ...

The database wars are waging on, as IBM on Tuesday rolled out an updated version of its DB2 Universal Database, version 7.2. The new version, due to ship on June 8, will run across a variety of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ins ...

Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company ...

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the hybrid ...

IBM on Monday is previewing enhancements planned for the next version of the DB2 database that are intended to help simplify development of applications for the Microsoft .Net platform. IBM ...

IBM could release a free version of its DB2 database next year, according to a company executive. Teo Wan Ping, IBM Singapore's brand manager for information management, told ZDNet Asia that IBM could ...