Evaluating Datastage

John S · Post by **John S** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:12 am

HI, Where can get a copy of the latest version of Datastage for an evaluation - a Windows version?

Thanks.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:16 am

Welcome aboard.

Find an IBM InfoSphere reseller in your part of the world (IBM can tell you who these are) and convince them that there is a 50% or better likelihood of a sale after your evaluation.

IBM does not provide free downloadable copies of this software.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:39 pm

Or get yourself an Amazon elastic web services account and start using DataStage for about US$21 an hour.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:18 pm

Elastic Compute Cloud?

dspxguy · Post by **dspxguy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:38 am

I think he means

aws.amazon.com/ec2

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:37 pm

It's very cool. I had the pleasure of doing some beta testing with it.....it works great....took a little getting used to at first (mostly conceptually as you set up the instances and IP addresses thru their gui's)-- you become your own "administrator" and configure and start stuff, and then have Windows images for your client....but it's a great way to test things on a much bigger box when needed, and/or do evals too.....

Ernie