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Raul F. Chong (rfchong@ca.ibm.com), DB2 Express-C Community Facilitator, IBM

18 Dec 2008

IBM® DB2® Express-C has been enhanced with several important features and improvements that were previously available only with fee-based versions of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Learn how you can take advantage of new capabilities such as DB2 Text Search, the administrative task scheduler, locale-sensitive UCA-based collations, and more.

As you probably know, DB2 Express-C is the free community edition of DB2. You can use it in production, distribute it embedded in your applications, or simply use it for development purposes. All for free! DB2 Express-C can be installed on servers of any size; though it will only use two cores and 2GB of memory; moreover, there is no limit in the database size. This is a pretty generous offering compared to what other vendors allow you to do with their community editions.

Version 9.5 of DB2 Express-C was released on November of 2007. Since then, several important improvements and new features have enhanced the product. Though available on the fee-based versions of DB2 for some time, these new features are now incorporated into the newly refreshed image of DB2 Express-C 9.5.2.

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