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June 17, 2008

According to Chris Livesey, IBM's U.K. director of information management software, while IBM has no immediate plans to open source its DB2 enterprise database, some of today's market conditions may make it unavoidable for the computing behemoth.

Overall, DB2 is widely used in IBM products globally. Livesey said the next step for the 25-year-old product include improving the interaction capabilities between DB2 and business intelligence (BI) products so that data queries can be managed in one single place.

Livesey added that "IBM offers a light version of the product offered for free, which is a step towards exposing our core DB2 technology to the rest of the marketplace. Looking at this company's heritage in contributing to the open source market, we've been particularly keen to lead that market. Open source sure is an interesting space."

"As the future unfolds, and the economics become clearer, there's going to be more commitment to open source by everybody. We've made good steps towards that," he assured.

Customers increasingly have the desire to search for business analytics in one place and in real time, said Livesey, which means that IBM had to focus on maintaining the speed of DB2 transactions while enabling complex queries in the same environment.

"People with detailed queries currently extract the data from DB2 databases to use with BI," Livesey said. "They don't do it in the database itself because the performance of the database would be hit very hard."

Currently, some challenges faced by IT professionals tasked with managing large chunks of data include the size and scale of data stores, Livesey said.

"Every year, there's a big data explosion which is increasing by orders of magnitude, which is having a major impact on storage and the guardians of data," he said.

"One has just to look at the amount of information produced on the planet and the number of people trying to access it. We don't know when things are going to fall over, and I for one sure don't expect it to happen any time soon."

Source: IBM.

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