Comments WelcomeYou have chosen IBM OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, the latest IBM product in a family of server software that has been used by thousands of customers who range in size from a small home or office to the largest multinational companies on the planet. This document will help you migrate your environment from OS/2 LAN Server and OS/2 Warp Server to OS/2 Warp Server for e-business.
We recommend that you read this chapter to understand the new functions and capabilities of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, then proceed to Chapter 2. Planning and Considerations to determine how to use the other sections of this document.
This chapter begins with a short discussion of the history of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business. We continue with a description of the needs of today's information technology environment and how OS/2 Warp Server for e-business addresses these needs. A formal description of the major components follows, and we make sure to describe some of the new functions included with this new release. After this, we describe the hardware and software prerequisites, language support, and the packaging of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business.
1.1 Product
History