>> I also tried SAP-DB before. > Now known as (or was, last time I checked) "MaxDB by MySQL"
and formerly known as the pre-relational dbms 'Adabas'. I think the only reason for its continued existance is that SAP was hoping for a very low cost, low-end database years ago. However, the database world has changed substantially over the last ten years: you can get postgresql and firebird for nothing, and db2 & oracle are often under $1000 for a small server. With that in mind I can't think of a database that's more of a has-been than maxdb. Maybe something from the 70s like IMS-DB or Model 204? buck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
