RE: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS?

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:02 -0500, Fred Pratt wrote:
"Simply giving away a "real deal, production ready" database engine for free
won't make any business sense to IBM."

IBM does this with DB2 Express-C. Why not a similar version for IDS?

Maybe IBM has determined that DB2 Express-C, contrary to IDS, isn't
worth any money. I don't know. I have so far successfully avoided having
to deal with DB2.

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Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net


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