IBM TO SHIP DB2 INTEGRATION SOFTWARE
IBM TO SHIP DB2 INTEGRATION SOFTWARE
Posted May 15, 2003 4:46 PM Pacific Time
IBM on Tuesday plans to announce availability of its DB2 Information Integrator software, for integrating and analyzing multiple forms of information, the company acknowledged on Thursday.
In beta since February, the software is intended to enable customers to manage centrally data, text, images, photos, video and audio files stored in different databases, according to IBM. XML content and Web services also are supported.
Interesting Quote:
"If we move to information as a utility for giant data grids, this is key technology for hiding or making unimportant the location and type of data. This software enables the data to be accessed transparently wherever it might be," Jones said.
Product Pricing
DB2 Information Integrator will be available for $20,000 per processor and $15,000 per data source connector.
Detail will also be available on Tuesday.
The cost for a bulk adapter license is about $75,000. If change capture is involved, the adapter license costs about $150,000. Real-time integration costs are mips-based, with a starting cost of about $300,000. One adapter can be used to translate and make native calls to all environments.
Very interesting pricing!
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/15/HNdb2integrate_1.html