RE: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?

["Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>]

Whoa, what a lively discussion and I am spending my time on work :-).

Ron, with all respect, if you ask a certain subset of users/adopters
about how they plan on using a certain technology, don't be surprised if
they provide an answer that is influenced by their context. If you would
have asked a company like BEA or other companies that are more
interested in transforming streaming data, you may have heart more about
"translating messages".

Best regards
Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@rpbourret.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:43 PM
> To: 'XML Developers List'
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] What niche is XQuery targeting?
> 
> Jonathan Robie wrote:
> > Tom Bradford wrote:
> >> The XQuery implementation that I participated in was meant for 
> >> transforming messages in an orchestration engine.  Seems 
> to me that 
> >> that is probably the best niche for XQuery overall, but 
> time will tell.
> > 
> > 
> > Doesn't seem like the best niche to me. Data integration 
> scenarios are 
> > probably the best niche, or just plain XML reporting from 
> various data 
> > sources, including at least one that is a large scale data store.
> 
> Agreed. I've recently been surveying native XML database 
> companies (not quite the same group as XQuery vendors, but 
> useful overlap) about use cases, and the results largely 
> agree with Jonathan. Translating messages was rarely mentioned.
> 
> -- Ron
> 
> 
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