IBM DB2 database software offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux, Unix and Windows to z/OS.IBM DB2 database comes in following editions. Enterprise Server Edition. Advanced Enterprise Server Edition. Workgroup Server Edition. Express-C.
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Express EditionFor this tutorial we are going to install IBM DB2 Express-C 10.1 edition on Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10 32 bit OS.IBM DB2 Express-C is the free edition of the IBM DB2 database server. You can download and install DB2 Express-C on your own machine freely. You can also provision your own DB2 Express-C server in the cloud.
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For large-scale deployments or for embedding a DB2 installation in your own application installation, use this handy response file method of installing DB2 that requires no user input. This article has been updated for DB2 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
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