IBM TO SHIP DB2 INTEGRATION SOFTWARE
IBM TO SHIP DB2 INTEGRATION SOFTWARE
Posted May 15, 2003 4:46 PM Pacific
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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!
For the full
story: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/15/HNdb2integrate_1.html