Re: database market share 2003

Blair Adamache apparently said,on my timestamp of 17/06/2004 4:16 AM:

> That seemed like a promising methodology, but I did some google searches
> in which the names of frequent posters to this thread were ANDed with
> colourful descriptors (wanker) and the results shook my confidence in
> the august credentials of our debating club.

I've got a few nice ones too.... There you go. I DO recommend a basic course on logic and the meaning of AND. :)

> BTW, I think it's irrelevant whether and how much Oracle and DB2 have
> departed from Codd's 12 rules.

They haven't. If anything, they are closer now than ever.

> We have watched relational databases
> displace hierachical and network databases - I think it's appropriate
> that the relational model gets stretched to address the needs of the
> object-oriented and XML worlds.

Stretching does not mean getting away from. It means expanding. You can expand a relational model WITHOUT becoming non-relational.

> OLAP. Some of the world's most successful software (CICS, IMS) came from
> tactical solutions developed by customers and field engineers.

Yes, but even IMS has a data storage theory behind it. Hierarchical databases.

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