Re: No future for DB2

DA Morgan wrote:
>XML was developed for a
>purpose. Storing it and querying it makes no >sense, wastes resources,
>and is highly inefficient.

Thank you Daniel, I thought either my current project had driven me insane or I had gone too soft in the head to understand these newfangled concepts.

But, the Customer's Dollars are Always Right!

Art S. Kagel wrote:

[comments about what IBM will do with IDS]

This sounds quite a bit like what Oracle did with the Rdb intellectual property. It took a number of years and a couple of versions, but eventually a lot migrated to Oracle and into new patents, while Rdb provided a typical mature product cash flow. Must still be one of the best $100M Larry ever spent.

jg

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