DB2 Express-C, Ubuntu, & Canonical bring you a great offering !   

I'm proud to bring you some exciting news about something new from DB2 Express-C, Ubuntu & Canonical.

We've all teamed up to bring you a solution that provides:

• a very simple way for ubuntu users to install & setup DB2 Express-C from the Ubuntu repositories for free
• a great deal on support & additional features for DB2 Express-C
• an easy-to-embed database ideal for redistribution, partners, etc

The press is already talking about it: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb712964.htm

Ubuntu 7.10 users can try it out today, and everyone can read more about it at http://www.ubuntu.com/ibm/db2

And you can get the great deal on support + more features at the canonical web store: https://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=121&osCsid=dbb9dfc494f0044e9eb7151fc32ef2c0

One of our valued community members has already posted some how-to information here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=187514&tstart=0

And one of the many blog posts about this offering can be found here (feel free to post others that you find). http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/21/canonical-partners-with-ibm-for-closed-source-database/

Thanks to igorM for the how-to and the blog link, and all the people that teamed up to make this happen.

Ryan Chase
DB2 Express Community team
DB2 Express-C home page: http://www.ibm.com/db2/express
Download DB2 Express-C for free: http://www.ibm.com/db2/express/download.html

Hello,

As this is a DB2 forum (and we only work on the DB2 space) I unfortunately do not know if the Websphere folks will do that. I will definitely try to talk to some folks about this though.

If you have an IBM representative that is in the Websphere space it is definitely a good thing to bring this up with them as well.

Thanks