With the commitment of Oracle to the database market, combined with the rock stability of the Linux operating system this makes for an extremely powerful combination. DB2 Another commercial database that is ideally suited for e-business is DB2 . DB2 is produced by IBM and has been available for Linux since late 1998. One of the key features of DB2 is its DB2 Control Center which offers administrators an easy to use interface for maintaining databases that can be run from any Java-enabled Web browser. Java developers are catered by the DB2 Universal Database for Linux which offers support for JDBC and SQLJ, and Net.
Data allows for the creation of dynamic data driven Web applications.
Perl developers can also take advantage of the DB2 Universal Database Perl driver for the Perl Database Interface. DB2 has support for SQLJ which provides higher performance for Java database applications. Businesses can benefit from DB2 because it will easily allow them to web-enable enterprise data and to provide transaction processing IBM offer a wide variety of support contracts including classes at the customer site. DB2 supports millions of users and terabytes of data in leading e-business applications worldwide. With this sort of usage, business users can feel confident that DB2 under Linux will be extremely reliable.