IBM Tailors A Content Manager For Smaller Customers

DB2 Content Manager Express, now available for Windows 2000 and soon to ship for Linux, is $9,375 per server plus $1,063 per user, the company said Wednesday.

This software rounds out IBM's Express offerings. Last week the company offered alternative pricing for its existing DB2 Express database offering to make it more attractive for widespread use.

IBM executives have said to expect an Express version of content manager for the last several months. (See story.)

Most of the major software vendors are avidly courting the SMB crowd. Oracle recently expanded its Oracle 9i database offerings to include a lower-priced SKU for smaller businesses. Most observers see this as an attempt to wrest these customers from Microsoft SQL Server.

IBM also updated its enterprise content management offering. A new DB2 Content Manager for Linux, supports Red Hat, SuSe and United Linux distributions and costs $29,000 per server and $2,500 per concurrent user.

DB2 Records Manager 3.1 , for additional functionality including digital rights management is also available and costs $24,000 per server plus $250 per concurrent user. Records Manager, based on technology IBM acquired along with Tarian last year, lets an administrator set up expiration dates for documents for example.

IBM DB2 Content Manager for Linux, is now available, and costs $29,000 per Server and $2,500 per concurrent user and is available for Red Hat, SuSe, and United Linux distributions.