Antonio Cangiano October 31st, 2007
IBM has just released the new version of DB2 Express-C, the free dataserver without any limits on database size or the number of users. It’s not been posted yet on the official page, but you can already download DB2 Express-C 9.5. Get the Linux version from here and the Windows version from here. Further links for all the goodies are available from this forum post.
Version 9.5 brings to the table a great deal of new enhancements and features. Among these there is also the reduced amount of memory requirements and the improved efficiency of operations on Linux. Oh and it will also make you rich and more beautiful. Ehm, I mean, pureXML support has been greatly improved and it is a release that is sure to please many people on both Windows and Linux.
Antonio Cangiano October 29th, 2007
I’m glad to inform you that the beta version of the Python and DB2 (IBM databases to be more exact) driver and DBI wrapper have been released in the Python Package Index. You can download the source for version 0.1.0 from here. This includes two components:
The DBI wrapper utilizes the IBM defined API driver, but you can also use the feature-rich API indipendently without the DBI wrapper.
I plan to provide a few examples about the usage of the IBM specific API. The Python driver is almost identical to the Ruby one, hence I may create a joined post for both languages. Now go try it and have fun. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below or send an email to the address opendev@us.ibm.com.
Antonio Cangiano October 11th, 2007
The inspiration for this picture came to me when at my office I lost connectivity for part of the morning. It’s incredible how much we rely on the Internet for everything and how we are almost helpless without it. Don’t you feel like this picture represents you, too? By the way, I’m not addicted, I can quit the Internet whenever I want. 
