> Well, he had to say *something* after IBM and Microsoft had such cool
> things to announce and discuss. Assuming the past record of 3-5
> years on average between releases, the "next couple releases" will
> take 6-15 years or so. Personally, by that time I'll be expecting
> artificial intelligence, rather than just *autonomy*. Of course, I'm
> also expecting to be dead, too...
nah, you're too young to die in 15 years...
- Tim Gorman <Tim_at_SageLogix.com> wrote:
> Good post, Kirti!
>
> Quote...
>
> "Oracle Corp. says its customers are moving toward data stores of
> huge size and complexity, spread over multiple locations. The company
> says its products will not only evolve to handle those kinds of jobs,
> but will also do them extraordinarily well. "Over the next couple of
> releases, we'll see essentially fully autonomous databases," says
> Robert Shimp, vice president of database marketing."
>
> ---
>
> Well, he had to say *something* after IBM and Microsoft had such cool
> things to announce and discuss. Assuming the past record of 3-5
> years on average between releases, the "next couple releases" will
> take 6-15 years or so. Personally, by that time I'll be expecting
> artificial intelligence, rather than just *autonomy*. Of course, I'm
> also expecting to be dead, too...
>
> It's clear that the basic research efforts by both IBM and Microsoft
> continue to bear fruit. IBM has a decades-old tradition of pushing
> its people to PhD research, while Microsoft has just gotten started
> relatively recently. To my knowledge, Oracle does not have a similar
> program within, does it?
>
> Nevertheless, Oracle has made a living exploiting publicly available
> basic research (starting with its origins) and luring people from
> elsewhere (remember Informix's lawsuit some years ago?). As IBM,
> AT&T, and Xerox will attest, its really tough to keep basic research
> under wraps for exploitation...
>
> Still, LEO and "stream queries" aren't necessary very far off in
> Oracle. Well, maybe LEO is, but not "stream queries" when you
> consider the underlying aspects of external tables...
>
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>
> > Interesting article on Query Optimization research..
> >
>
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801,7316
> > 4,00.html
> >
> > - Kirti
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