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Reasons to switch to DB2 9.7

Antonio Cangiano

IBM recently put out a video with a few quotes from customers who’ve had a chance to try DB2 9.7 in production. At times the editing is a bit cheesy, but what our customers are saying is factual. DB2 9.7 is quite a breakthrough and it can save millions of dollars for large companies. If your needs are more modest, like a demanding Web application or a point of sale server, DB2 Express-C can still give you most of the same benefits at zero the cost. Wanna take it for a spin? You can download it here or sign up at RightScale.com to try it on the Cloud.

Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano is an Engineering Manager and AI Specialist at IBM. He authored Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (Wrox, 2009) and Technical Blogging (The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012, 2019). He is also the Marketing Lead for Cognitive Class, an educational initiative which he helped grow from zero to over 3 Million students. You can follow him on Twitter.

4 responses to “Reasons to switch to DB2 9.7”

  1. Roderick van Domburg

    It seems to me that the Currently Committed isolation level is semantically equivalent to Multi-Version Concurrency Control. Or is that too much of a stretch?

  2. Surachart Opun

    How about multi-version and rolling forward?

  3. Shawn

    When will DB2 for Mac OS X be updated to 9.7?

  4. Antonio Cangiano

    Shawn, I know there are plans to update the Mac version to 9.7, but I wasn’t able to retrieve the info about when that’s going to happen.

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