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Re: Earth shattering news! IBM renames DB2!

I think they think it looks more like how modern code looks and that DB2
all -capitals looks boomer clunky.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:59 PM, mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can anyone explain the benefit of this rename?

On 7/18/2017 7:49 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

I have an entire conference to "rename" and rebrand - in theory at
least! "RPG& DB2 Summit".

Kind of hard to justify the expense of new graphics, banners, etc. etc.
to change it to "RPG& Db2 Summit"


Seriously IBM - haven't you got anything better to do with your money?


Jon Paris

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On Jul 18, 2017, at 7:20 PM, DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And what about all the other languages where they will need to change
it! :-)


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/18/2017 12:05 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:


I wonder if the first priority will be to change all URL links from
...DB2... to ...Db2...? One place where case matters.
Rob Berendt


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