The customer and clients are interested in a broad information platform and DB2 is an engine that powers all the aspects. I don't think CA spinning off what was widely regarded as an underperforming piece of their portfolio poses a significant threat.

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We are expanding our investment in growing the community of developers and users of DB2. With DB2 Express-C, developers now have the industry's first no-cost, fully functional relational data server to use for developing and deploying applications.

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When you compress data to memory storage, then you don't have to harden to disk as frequently.

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