Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Mark Rittman, whom I am now even more jealous of because he now gets sensible connectivity on his local train "service" whereas I get none at all and no prospect of any on First Great Western and pay a fortune for it, points out an article by way of /. which may well have the DBA's (or reactionaries as the article has it) spluttering over their keyboards.
The article, which is a collaboration by a Distinguished Engineer on the Microsoft research staff Jim Gray and a marketing consultant Mark Compton, looks at the future of databases. My reading of the article is that its take on the future of databases is that they will abandon their basis in theory and design and become hosting environments for complex applications. Ok that's probably an unfair summary, but it does read like that. Now this maybe the way the marketing and feature add for RDBMS is going (host Java or C# in the db, the streaming and queueing interfaces, the XML additions and so on), but it sure makes depressing reading. I can't wait to see what Fabian Pascal makes of the paper, though I see he has a quote from the thread on the main page currently.
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The article, which is a collaboration by a Distinguished Engineer on the Microsoft research staff Jim Gray and a marketing consultant Mark Compton, looks at the future of databases. My reading of the article is that its take on the future of databases is that they will abandon their basis in theory and design and become hosting environments for complex applications. Ok that's probably an unfair summary, but it does read like that. Now this maybe the way the marketing and feature add for RDBMS is going (host Java or C# in the db, the streaming and queueing interfaces, the XML additions and so on), but it sure makes depressing reading. I can't wait to see what Fabian Pascal makes of the paper, though I see he has a quote from the thread on the main page currently.
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>> they will abandon their basis in theory and design and become hosting environments for complex applications. Ok that's probably an unfair summary <<
That seems like a fair summary to me.
I suppose that some people/companies just want to keep changing stuff whether it works or not. Or is that too cynical?
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That seems like a fair summary to me.
I suppose that some people/companies just want to keep changing stuff whether it works or not. Or is that too cynical?
