IBM today introduced a free version of its DB2 database in a move designed to win software developers over to its products. It is called DB Express-C and is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings. The company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on.
IBM is following similar moves from Oracle and Microsoft recently, as well as the increasing shift toward open source sfotware by the development community.
According to Evans Data over 70% of developers installed and used an open-source database last year. And of the open-source databases, MySQL was by far the most popular among respondents.
The free software movement continues unabated amongst developers, tech start-ups and soon into the corporate and government universe.
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