IBM today announced that DB2 Version 8 will be generally available this fall for non- OS/390 platforms and reiterated that the product’s main enhancements are in the areas of ease of use ...

Called DB2 Express-C, the new version works with both Windows and Linux operating systems as well as on 32-bit and 64-bit single and dual-core processors from Intel and AMD.

DB2 version 8, due in November, is IBM's newest weapon in the competitive database market. The company is hoping to steal some thunder from rival Oracle in the $12.7 billion annual market for ...

IBM today released a beta version of Viper, the latest update to its leading DB2 database, and officials touted the software's support for unstructured XML data.

IBM said that a future version of DB2 Express-C, code-named Viper, will include hybrid relational and XML database features. Viper is due for release this year.

Last week’s news that IBM is releasing a free version of its DB2 database software might be good news for system administrators seeking a low-cost (as in, no-cost) back-end server platform.

Now, the company will sell one product, the DB2 Enterprise Server Edition. The new version of DB2 will cost $25,000 per processor, or about $5,000 more per processor than the former version.

IBM hopes its latest version of DB2 will be a summer blockbuster I’m not above cheap tricks or tawdry pop-culture references to draw attention to an important story, like our review of DB2 9.1 ...

DBI (Database-Brothers, Inc.) has released Brother-Panther for DB2 LUW 5.1. 'Brother-Panther is all about performance monitoring, analysis, tuning and trending. Our customers are very successful at ...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — IBM on Monday extolled the value of open standards as it revealed plans to expand Web services, XML, and Java interoperability in the next version of its DB2 Content Manager.