> I was reading some article today about IBM & DB2 today. > I think it said something like DB2 was IBM's real first try into relational > databases. > My memory is foggy here something in the back of my mind says that > is not quite correct. > Back in the 70's (?) I vaguely remember IBM having a FDP(?) that > claimed to do relational database. > By slim memory says it may have been VM based. I do remember it had a 4 page > white sales type paper(IUP?). No name comes up. > Can anyone supply me with a product name? > I do recall something like this as we were looking at a product and the show > stopper was that it needed VM.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320457 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R http://www.sigmod.org/publications/dblp/db/systems/r.html Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
