Re: database market share 2003

Andrew Hamm wrote (in part):

> Is c.d.i destined to become a desolate wasteland of pointless arguments and
> whingers pining for the good old days?
>

I am not pining for IBM IMS/DB and CICS, or IBM IMS/DB and IMS/DC. Is anyone? I did get stuck on a project where we were required to use IBM IMS/DB and /DC and had to write the censored thing in IBM Basic Assembler Language ("for efficiency reasons"). They had 70 programmers on that for about 4 years before the project was scrapped. It may have been efficient, but since it solved the wrong problem, it was no use to anyone. I argued in favor of using a higher level language, but was shouted down. With a higher level language, we could have realized we were solving the wrong problem a lot sooner.

The good old days! Bah!

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