Re: DB2

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

I'm a little confused on the exact lineage of DB2, but isn't it Open Source?

No.

The confusion stems in part from the fact that a lot of typical Linux components, sendmail for instance, use "DB2" format databases for internal functions.

No, they use Berkeley db are some variant of the idea.

Then there's the big announcement by IBM that they were releasing DB2 to OS a year or so ago.

Hmmm.... I doubt it. They released a database written in Java, but DB2 is IBM's answer to a database for the big iron.

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