Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available

Re:Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available by nradov on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:04PM (#576762)

The entry-level editions of DB2 and WebSphere Application Server are both free. They aren't open source, but you certainly don't have to pay $20K. DB2 has far superior XML support than any open source database, so forward thinking developers can get a lot of value there for certain applications. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/ http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/

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Re:Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available by ShabbyDoo on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:15PM (#576775)

I agree on the merits of DB2 -- I've used it before, and it seems pretty nice.

The free versions are great until you want to scale vertically:

    * Processor: 2 cores
    * Memory: 2 GB

That's the limits unless you pay for support. It goes up from there.

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