IBM DB2 Promotion
January 18, 2006 at 9:03 pm by Will Crawford in Ramblings, Software | 1 CommentMark Whitehorn over at Reg Developer just wrote a column asking why IBM’s DB2 is so neglected. It is, after all, the best core database platform out there by almost universal acclamation. And it’s the most popular, too, given how well it handles the utterly massive databases required by a company like, say, UPS.
But DB2 never caught on in the small to medium enterprise, even though Windows and Linux versions have been available for years. It’s not on the radar screen for most developers, who don’t need the massive capacity stretch. Oracle tends to win by default (in the Java world) by having better, or at least more visible, developer tools, and, of course, SQL Server does very well in Microsoft land.
It’s a head scratcher. IBM really should think about the DB2 advertising budget, and maybe start coming up with creative ways to get the database in the hands of smaller developers.
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Hi Will,
That was a good article. Mark has a long track record with databases and knows what he is talking about. Fortunately, there have been rumors of IBM giving away DB2 Express Edition, which will hopefully level the playing field for new customers who are looking for a good DBMS.
Comment by Fred Sobotka — January 19, 2006 #