Db2 Month

At 40 years old, is Db2 still relevant?

At 40 years old, is Db2 still relevant?

It’s the 40th anniversary of Db2, IBM’s family of data management products, which was first released in 1983 as DB/2 (Database 2). IBM Db2 was a successor to IBM's first relational database IMS, and as a response to competition from Oracle's database, which was...

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