One thing I just did at work was use SurveyMonkey to put together a quick survey about the DB2 Express-C download experience.

I do wish they offered a prefilled dropdown with a list of countries, though.

Another SurveyMonkey limitation I just encountered is the need to pony up some dough in order to have more than three trackable links to a survey.

Still, the site seems to be fairly rugged. I am happy with its reporting capabilities from past experience.

One thing I recently did at work was put together the Upgrade to DB2 9.5 site.

End of base support is coming for DB2 8.2 on April 30, 2009. There are several reasons to move to DB2 9.5 before — both business and technical.

The thing is, IBM doesn’t sell a release of DB2 — it sells DB2. If you’ve bought one release of DB2, you’ve bought them all for as long as your support holds out. You might as well be running as the best, most performant release — and that release is DB2 9.5. It’s cheaper, smarter, more secure, and more performant than DB2 8.2 or virtually anything else out there.

DB2 for z/OS folks will want to upgrade any copies of DB2 Connect to 9.5.

If you’ve seen IBM sites before, this one looks a bit different. There are some pretty strict guidelines for what can go on ibm.com, and we got to push the letter of them to limit. This got us a site that is clean, focused, and visually appealing.

My team has also put together a media pack for anyone who’d like to raise awareness about the end-of-support for DB2 8.2. Feel free to use any of these graphics on your blogs, personal sites, and similar endeavours:

(As usual, this blog contains my own opinions and doesn’t represent IBM in any official capacity.)