[dba-Tech] Dearly Departed Databases (R.I.P.)

DataFlex - I did work with it in 1993-1994 - it was great, OOP, 4GL etc. -
it was widely used epecially in Autralia and Sweden, UK etc. - is getting
nowehere now?

dbVista (Raima Data Manager) - great too, C/C++ centric, cross-platform(PC
OSes)  mainly used  in embedded systems now....

Ashton Tate Framework - great tool - anscestor of all nowadays Office
suits...

MS Access :) - it's getting depreciated now as a development tool(?) - not a
mainstream development tool like my collegue working at MS (:) ) says - do
you agree? :)))

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 3:27 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Dearly Departed Databases (R.I.P.)


> For some reason it occurred to me today to compile a list of databases I
> once used (and perhaps more than once), once loved, and once even deployed
> an app against. I tried a few googles on subjects approximating the
subject
> but came up with nothing relevant.
>
> So I am proposing this tentative list -- not meant to be exhaustive, but
> rather just OTTOMH... the ultimate goal being to compile a list of when
the
> products went off the market, when the companies folded or were sold, and
so
> on. For the Brits on the list, let`s call it Desert Island Databases. LOL.
>
> dBASE II... became dBASE III, begat dBASE IV (still Ashton-Tate, but then
> Borland bought the latter and tried dBASE V and it went nowhere, IIRC).
>
> FoxBase begat FoxPro... was bought by MS and still exists, in radically
> different cloth.
>
> Revelation... lost track long ago... no idea what happened on this score.
>
> Clarion... fabulous executables, dumb-ass language... no idea what
happened
> to them.
>
> Paradox... is it still for sale... no idea.
>
> Btrieve... the history of this baby eludes me... seems to have undergone a
> number of evolutions and buyouts but I have no detail.
>
> Knowledgeman... lost track more than a decade ago.
>
> InfoStar (this is really for the geriatrics in this list!). No idea what
> happened here.
>
> (This list is obviously PC-centric, but I would love some contributions
from
> those aware of the histories of various mini, midi and mainframe
databases.)
>
> TIA to any and all who can contribute obituaries or documentation of
> reincarnations.
>
> Arthur
>
>
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