Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Try the next version of DB2 in the Cloud

The DB2 Early Experience program lets you try the latest version of DB2 under development. Your feedback then helps build a better DB2.

By participating in the DB2 Early Experience program on the cloud, you can create your own DB2 server without having to obtain hardware, install and patch operating systems, or install the DB2 Early Experience code. Simply boot your database server when you want to use it and shut it down when you’re finished.

Cheers,

Leons Petrazickis
DB2 Community Team

2 comments:

  1. Is CloudDB2 intended to become a commerical offering or is it just for demonstration purposes?

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  2. Hi Jonathan,

    This in particular was created for demonstration purposes.

    IBM does have commercial offerings that run on Amazon EC2 infrastructure:

    http://aws.amazon.com/ibm/

    DB2 is also commercially available for Smart Business Development Test on IBM Cloud:

    http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/igs/cloud-development/

    Cheers,

    Leons

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