[AccessD] IBM DB2 Express-C free to use

DB2 has been around since 1982. Actually there were two of them
SQL/DS ran on the VSE and VM operating systems. It came to market in the 
early 1980s.
A little later, IBM also introduced DB2, another SQL-based DBMS, this 
one for the MVS operating system.
The two products have coexisted since then; however, SQL/DS was 
rebranded as "DB2 for VM and VSE" in the late 1990s.

I have been a plebe Cobol programmer using DB2 in the late 90's, never 
allowed near the actual live or test databases. The DBA's
all seemed to have British knighthood's like the GCMG; some people say 
the various levels of the Cross of Michael and St. George
actually stands for CMG -call me god, KCMG kindly call me god: GCMG god 
calls me god.

Gustav Brock wrote:

>Hi Robert
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>Oh, so you are a true DB2 veteran!
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>I played around a little with version 7 but had no real purpose for it, and anything DB2 sounded quite expensive, so ...
>But with this edition the picture has changed.
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>/gustav
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>>>>rl_stewart at highstream.net 01-02-2006 18:07:34 >>>
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>1.0 thru 8  :-)
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>IBM makes a very good database.  It has just been out of the reach of 
>small developers.
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>At 10:20 AM 2/1/2006, you wrote:
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>>Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:55:50 +0100
>>From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
>>Subject: Re: [AccessD] IBM DB2 Express-C free to use
>>To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>>Message-ID: <s3dfc0e4.063 at cactus.dk>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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>>Hi Robert
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>>Any comments on it? Or was that prior to version 8.2?
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>>/gustav
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada