On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:30:54 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> 
wrote:

>The name change was much bandied about at SHARE in Providence. I for one have 
>gotten over my indignation and am ready to move on. If you really want to be 
>offended by an assault on the sensibilities, how about the fact that there 
>never was a D(bee)1? The product was spawned in an era where calling anything 
>'2' gave it a veneer of respectability as if it were a new and improved 
>version of some mythical precursor. That was implicitly fake news, which we 
>now know is reprehensible skullduggery. 
>.
>J.O.Skip Robinson
>Southern California Edison Company
>Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
>SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
>323-715-0595 Mobile
>626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW
>robin...@sce.com

Well, there is a DB1, (or Db1), but it's called IMS!  :-)

And before there was Db2, there was SQL/DS on VM and VSE.

-- 
Dale R. Smith

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