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The History and Growth of IBM's DB2
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 35, Number 2, April–June 2013
- pp. 54-66
- Article
- Additional Information
IBM's Database 2 (DB2) relational database management system (RDBMS) shipped in the early 1980s and drove billions of dollars of revenue to IBM and other firms within its first decade. The product spawned a wealth of add-on tools and shaped the future of mainframe computing. Today, DB2 spans multiple operating systems and is widely deployed across a broad spectrum of industries.