Databases

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Wed Mar 9 17:55:04 CST 2005


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:25 pm, Bill Cavalieri wrote:

> > 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.

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.


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