Re: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS?

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?
DB2 Express C doesn't claim to be "turnkey" OLTP. Maybe IDS is a victim of it's success here.
Chances are you want support for DB2.
Also DB2 Express C now comes with an option for subscription support like mySQL (i.e. you pay $$/year).

A company doesn't give away anything of value unless you expect that a good chunk of the users will someone come back and pay in some form or other.

Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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