IBM Plans Q4 Release for DB2 Viper Upgrade
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The final version of DB2 Viper 2, a major upgrade to DB2 9 database software, will be available by the end of this year.
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IBM on Wednesday announced the pre-release of several tools for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) designed to speed development of solutions built on IBM middleware.
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Updated OS, new consumer products expected to be introduced next month.
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IBM has released a public beta of DB2 Viper 2, the next version of its DB2 9 database for Linux, Unix and Windows servers.
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Next week will see the launch of the latest version of IBM Corp.&#39;s DB2 database, codenamed Stinger, and focusing on autonomic computing and challenging rivals on price.
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Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will release previews of the next version of SQL Server leading up to the release of the next beta of the technology, expected in the first quarter of next year.
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The IBM announcement is being made in collaboration with Intel. Under an agreement reached two years ago, the companies have worked together to design and manufacture blade servers.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. has opened the public beta program for the next version of its Informix database server and announced plans for a bundled Linux package for smaller businesses. The upgrade to IBM's Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is code-named Cheetah. The final version is due out sometime later this year and will offer new features for application developers, better support for hierarchical data structures and improved query capabilities across multiple instances of the database, IBM announced Thursday. For now, customers and IBM partners can try out a beta version of the software by downloading it here . The company is working with Novell Inc. to offer the database in an "integrated, low-cost" package of hardware and software for small and medium-sized businesses. Due out this year, it will include Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server and an IBM xSeries 3105 server powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron 1000 Series processors, IBM said. Pricing and other details will be announced nearer to its release. IBM acquired Informix's database business in 2001 for about US$1 billion. Customers have praised the company for continuing to develop IDS and for not forcing them onto IBM's flagship DB2 databases. But some users have also been critical that IBM does little to market the software, pushing its DB2 brand instead. IBM said the development of Cheetah shows that IDS continues to be one of its key strategic products. The vendor's promising significant enhancements for application developers, to help get applications up and running quickly and port existing applications to IDS. Cheetah also supports the services-oriented architecture model for application integration, and comes with a new deployment wizard for minimizing the disk space required for a custom install, IBM said. The last major upgrade to IDS, version 10, came out two years ago, in March 2005. Â
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IBM has issued an upgrade of its WebSphere middleware product, adding autonomic troubleshooting capabilities that autmatically detects system problems and recovers Web-based business transactions that would take days to fix manually.
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SEPTEMBER 09, 2004  - IBM said today that it&#39;s about to ship the next generation of its DB2 Universal Database, which it said offers self-tuning capabilities that will result in less management overhead even as databases grow bigger and
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Microsoft Corp has issued further details of new reporting and business intelligence features that it plans to introduce into its present and future SQL Server relational database platform.
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InfoWorld - IBM shored up commitment to its mainframe computing platform Thursday with a series of new technologies, investments in emerging markets, new industry-focused solutions, and new partnerships.
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"Stinger" update of DB2 will focus on automatic administration and an improvement in clustered performance.
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IBM is launching the next version of its DB2 Universal Database, code-named Stinger, touting new autonomic features and .NET developer tools.
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InfoWorld - IBM Corp. is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses.
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IBM will begin shipping a new DB2 Universal Database next week that has more self-managing capabilities, extended Linux support, and geospatial technology.
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New version comes as competition looms from VMWare, which plans to release the latest beta of its Fusion product on Friday.