10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
3:37 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Hull [email protected] Date: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:27 am Subject: Re: DB2
Quoting Jonathan Hutchins [email protected]:
Ok, aparantly my brain concatenated "IBM Released a database to
Open Source"
with "DB2 is IBM's big deal". Thanks for the clarification.
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB
IV. What ever
happened to those?
I'm sorry to report that those are still alive and kicking... and screaming. --
Databases rarely ever die. If a DB application doesn't require much, people don't replace their old applications. And if it does require much, it's very difficult to switch out the underlying DB, because things like concurrency models are implemented differently in every DB.