IBM DB2

The IBM Software Group is one of the important divisions of the IBM. It has different brands including the IBM Software Group, Information Management Software, Lotus Software, Rational Software, Tivoli Software and Web Sphere. IBM is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation. The headquarter of this corporation is located in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is set with an objective of manufacturing, selling computer hardware and software products. The company is one of the few information technology companies in operation since 19th century. Based on the recent history IBM has become a renowned name as the world’s largest computer company. It is set with an objective of manufacturing, selling computer hardware and software. The company also offers different hosting services, infrastructure services and the consulting services in those areas such as mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The employees of IBM are spread worldwide who work for preparing software and hardware products. All over the world there are about eight laboratories prevailed. The company is also known for having such working entities who have also earned four Turing Awards, three Nobel Prizes, five National Medals of Technology and also five national medals of science. Many software products are created by the IBM. The IBM DB2 is one such software product it falls under four different categories which include Business Solution, Technology Optimization, System Solutions and Technology Outsourcing.

The DB2 is one major software product created as a relational database management system software product within IBM's broader Information Management Software line. There are different editions and versions of IBM DB2 all these operate on devices that range from handhelds to mainframes. IBM DB2 also refers to DB2 Enterprise Server Edition or the top-of-the-line DB2 Data Warehouse Edition.

The DB2 is available in many different editions and also by licensing arrangements. IBM provides the customers scope of avoiding paying for database products which they do not require. The company also makes some sample editions including the Express, workgroup, and Enterprise Edition. The most sophisticated edition for linux/UNIX/Windows is DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition, or DB2 DWE. Such editions are made for mixed workloads. Beginning with the Version 8, IBM brought DB2 for z/OS and for the other platforms into much closer alignment.

In the year 2006 and on 30th January the IBM released one no charge version of DB2 which is called as DB2 Express. This release of version was an expected response to the recently announced free versions of Oracle 10g and Microsoft SQL Server.

The most important position in the database management software market was recently held by the Oracle. IBM and DB2 are regularly positioned at or near the top of the TPC-C and TPC-H industry benchmarks published on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's website.

The DB2 software product can be administered either through the command line or a GUI. DB2 provides APIS for many programming languages including NET CLI, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, C++, C, REXX, PL/I, COBOL, RPG, FORTRAN, and many other programming also.

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