Jonathan Hutchins <> 03/09/05 05:55PM >>>
On 09 March 2005 05:25 PM, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
Brian Kelsay
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. Whatever happened to those?
Relational/Object DB's negated most of the need for them, SQLite would be a good example. The dBASE's are still around, some utilities in Linux let you read/convert from dBASE formats.
Oh, right, yeah, dBASE, now apparently on version 7.5, and still going at http://www.dbase.com . Some companies (AT&T) had a pretty big investment in it, I guess they've kept it going, but I don't see much demand for it in the job market.
dBASE is a cheap database, but this is the type of product that I can see disappearing soon due to lack of interest. The even cheaper or free options will wipe them out. It's sad, but it happens. And with student pricing at $99 I would kill an instructor that chose that over MySQL or Postgres. Hal, how was Btrieve wiped out? What other databases have died anybody?