DB2

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:27 am
Subject: Re: DB2

> Quoting Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>:
> 
> > 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.