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Still time for DB2 people to win a 50 inch plasma TV or one of 25 iPods I did not want any of our DB2 Express - C community to miss out on a chance to win a really big TV or one of 25 really small iPods. Take a look at my ITToolbox blog post Penny for your thoughts ... or better yet a 50 inch plasma TV or one of 25 iPods. for details of the contest. The important part is not the prizes. This survey gives you a chance to have your opinions heard by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) and to influence the programs that IDUG brings to you in the future. If you are not familiar with what IDUG can do for you, take the opportunity to browse their web site. It is a terrific resource for anybody who works with DB2. download  file  now

State of DB2 in the Cloud March 2011 Unlike many of its competitors, DB2 is fully supported in virtualized environments. Since every cloud is built upon virtualization, this means that DB2 is automatically supported when running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM Development & Test Cloud, even in unofficial images. One interesting aspect of this is that, if you fill out the free redistribution form, you can create cloud images that bundle the free DB2 Express-C database with your companys software without paying a dime to IBM. At any time, you can then upgrade to the DB2 Express edition and get IBM support for your custom bundle. Hypervisors Amazon EC2 uses Xen as its hypervisor, while IBM Cloud uses KVM. Hypervisor is industry jargon for the component which sits on top of physical hardware and manages hardware access for virtual machines. There are many other hypervisor technologies, of which VMWare ESX is a popular one. Because all editions of DB2 suppor...