IBM research projects cover SOA, Web 2.0 Company shows off dozens of projects in the networking, collaboration, on-demand, security, and consumer areas. By Paul Krill.

IBM could release a free version of its DB2 database next year, ... In any IT project, the software acquisition costs make up about 10 percent of the total implementation costs, he noted.

Meanwhile, IBM said Db2 11.5 has a shared code base with three editions: Db2, Db2 Standard and Db2 Advanced. Db2 is a trial download for developers with a single application to prototype and test.

IBM is expanding its open-source strategy beyond Linux by targeting eight new technology areas where it will focus open-source attention going forward. On Tuesday at LinuxWorld in San Francisco ...

IBM is making the data virtualization functions that are already available with IBM Cloud Private for Data available in Db2. It’s also adding support for blockchain. All these features – except the ...

IBM itself is using the BLU components of DB2 10.5 as a cornerstone for its DB2 SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to add computational heft for data reporting and analysis jobs.

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database management software under an open-source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market ...

IBM also intends to bring out a version of DB2 9 for its System z mainframe before year’s end, he added. DB2 9 Enterprise Edition, a full-blown version of the database, is priced from US$36,400 ...

IBM showed off research efforts in a number of areas, including SOA, wikis, and mashups, at its IBM Silicon Valley Lab on Wednesday afternoon. Technologies on display leveraged concepts like ...