Appendix E. DB2 on Other Platforms

IN THIS APPENDIX

• The DB2 Family

• Packaging and Naming Issues

Although DB2 began its life on the mainframe, the advent of client/server technology and the success of competing RDBMS products (such as SQL Server and Oracle) caused IBM to create versions of DB2 for additional platforms. In short, DB2 is no longer just a mainframe product.