From students to seasoned enterprise developers, the hoops one typically must jump through to install and use the types of commercial software most enterprises run their businesses on can be unnecessarily frustrating and expensive.

Many of these packages don’t offer free versions, which can be prohibitively expensive for students trying to learn a new technology or organizations trying to equip them with tools. Then there are “free” versions of commercial offerings with missing features, time-limited licenses, outdated code and even adware. It’s no wonder developers have jumped on the open source bandwagon, given the cost and complexity of enterprise software. Regrettably, some of these limitations were even true for IBM Db2 downloads until now. 

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https://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/simplifying-db2-downloads-help-clients-and-developers-get-started