RE: IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database

>From what I have seen, which is admittedly very little, possibly on an IXS,
FSIOP or whatever the PC under the hood is called - not on the iSeries
itself unless it suddenly runs on AMD or Intel based chips. Last time I
heard it was Power architecture :)

Regards,

Kevin Wright 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Richter [mailto:stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2006 3:13 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its 
> DB2 database
> 
> 
> On 1/30/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move
> > designed to win software developers over to its products.
> >
> > DB Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial 
> offerings but the
> > company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on.
> >
> > It can be deployed on systems with two processor cores or up to two
> > dual-core chips on Advanced Micro Devices- or Intel-based 
> servers. The
> > memory limit is 4GB but there are no limits on the size of 
> database or
> > number of users.
> >
> 
> this looks good:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/
> 
> can it run on the iSeries? :)
> 
> -Steve
> 
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