DB2 Students Group

A new version of DB2 Express-C was made available by IBM today. As you might already know DB2 Express-C is a free dataserver without any limits on database size or number of users.

We got this news from Antonio Cangiano, a IBM Engineer that likes DB2 and Ruby on Rails. Seems like a nice guy!

So you won’t find this new version on IBM DB2 Express-C Website, but you can download the Linux Version here and the Windows Version here. Mac version is still not available. This is probably the down side as many of us are waiting for IBM to ship a Express-C DB2 version for Macintosh. Hopefully next time?

We still didn’t tested the new DB2 but according to Antonio

Version 9.5 brings to the table a great deal of new enhancements and features. Among these there is also the reduced amount of memory requirements and the improved efficiency of operations on Linux. Oh and it will also make you rich and more beautiful. I mean, pureXML support has been greatly improved and it is a release that is sure to please many people on both Windows and Linux.

About the T-Shirt, we know it’s great. Hopefully Vítor will send us some few.