********************************************************************* Welcome to Issue IV of DB2 Today. DB2 Today will be of interest to anyone involved with database management software. Please send your comments to hpaltz@us.ibm.com as we are interested in your feedback. ********************************************************************** Highlights Include: 1) IBM Puts the Enterprise Power of DB2 in the Palm of your Hands, FOR FREE! 2) IBM Digital Library Provides Imaging Solution of the Year! 3) Education Update 4) Put DB2 to the test - FREE TRIAL CODE AND CD OFFER! 5) DB2 in the News! 6) Partnering for Success! ********************************************************************** 1 ==> F R E E D O W N L O A D S! IBM PUTS THE ENTERPRISE POWER OF DB2 IN THE PALM OF YOUR HANDS, FOR FREE New Alliances With Palm Computing, Inc. and Puma Technology Speed Application Development Bridging the worlds of e-business, business intelligence and pervasive computing, IBM announced general availability of DB2* Everywhere, at no charge, with free downloading from the Web. New agreements with Palm Computing, a 3Com company, and Puma Technology are designed to help DB2 Universal Database developers create applications for handheld devices quickly and easily. For more information and to download a free copy of DB2 Everywhere visit at:http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/everywhere 2 ==> A W A R D S! I M A G I N G S O L U T I O N O F T H E Y E A R ! IBM Digital Library and the Hermitage Museum Project have been awarded the "Imaging Solution of the Year" award from the Advanced Imaging Magazine for the "Digital/Electronic Photography and Photo Databasing" category. Check out the full story at http://www.software.ibm.com/is/dig-lib/news.html#award 3 ==> E D U C A T I O N! Subscribe to DB2 Conference Topics Online for 50 Talks from Upcoming Technical Conference http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/db2/online/ Select from over 50 of the upcoming DB2 and Data Warehouse Technical Conference presentations, in the form of independent one-hour modules. When you subscribe, you will get the speaker's color presentation synchronized with audio, questions and answers during the session, and navigation features to move around within each presentation. To learn more about the upcoming DB2 Technical Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sept 13 - 17 please check out http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/db2/ 4 ==> P U T D B 2 T O T H E T E S T - FREE TRIAL CODE AND CD OFFER! DB2 Universal Database Version 6.1 for Unix, Windows and OS/2 platforms is now generally available to power the world's e-business applications! Find out more about DB2, download trial code, learn about customers using DB2 and more at http://www.ibm.software.com/data 5 ==> D B 2 I N T H E N E W S! "IBM's DB2 Powers Up PDAs" - INFOWORLD - Read the full story at http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/reviews/990823db2.htm "IBM adds Linux to database software" - Read full story at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39987,00.html "IBM attempts big splash at LinuxWorld" - Read full Story at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1015836,00.html "DB2 Goes Free with Mini-me" - Read full story at http://www.IT-Analysis.com/99-08-23-3.html 6 ==> P A R T N E R I N G F O R S U C C E S S ! Comshare Inc. and IBM have entered into an agreement where Comshare will market Comshare BudgetPLUS on IBM DB2 Universal Database and IBM will assist Comshare in marketing BudgetPLUS worldwide. The agreement also marks the debut of Comshare as an IBM Independent Software Vendor to make BudgetPLUS operational on DB2 Universal Database by this fall. Comshare BudgetPLUS already runs on DB2 OLAP Server, supporting an NT environment. 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