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>In March of 2006, IBM made a strategic decision to release their best
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of breed DB2 database as freely available software. It is important to
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realize that the DB2 Express-C edition is a gratis, "free as in beer" software product,
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meaning that, although the source code is not distributed as part of the product,
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this edition of DB2 is freely useable and full featured, not "crippled" in any way.
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>A number of other large enterprise class databases have also opted to
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release versions of their software, but DB2 Express-C is the only one that
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created. The one restriction to using DB2 Express-C is that it can only be run
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on systems with 2 physical CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. Since the majority of
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developers and small businesses run systems within these specifications, DB2
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Express-C makes a great choice for developers and business applications.
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>With DB2 Express-C, you get a free, low maintenance database application
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as performance typically found in much more expensive enterprise-level
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database software.
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