On Wednesday 09 March 2005 5:09 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Ok, aparantly my brain concatenated "IBM Released a database to Open Source" with "DB2 is IBM's big deal". Thanks for the clarification.
Cloudscape is the java database that IBM oss'd (Apache 2 Lic)
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. What ever happened to those?
Relational/Object DB's negated most of the need for them, SQLite would be a good example. The dbases's are still around, some utilities in linux let you read/convert from dbase formats.