DB2

[Bill Cavalieri]

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.