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Re: Against the Grain: Pascal commentary about XML and databases
- From: Tom Bradford <bradford@dbxmlgroup.com>
- To: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:24:18 -0700
Jonathan Robie wrote:
> Of course, Fabian would then go on to say that the only sound kind of DBMS
> is a relational database, but I hope we can feel free to differ with him on
> that.
And then I'm sure that most people made the same argument about
relational databases before the 1980s. At that time, they were still,
for the most part, a novelty, and by no means the norm... Not to
mention the fact that they weren't stable and the technology behind them
couldn't be considered 'sound'. Hell, most of them still suck.
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