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Re: End of an era...

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 17 Aug 2005 17:27:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1124324842.550978.6750@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


hpuxrac wrote:

>

> Some pretty good database solutions for that time already were in the
> marketplace and are still proceeding from IBM.

Yes, the mainframes. Ah well, can't win them all...

> The theoretical and mathematical foundations behind the relational
> design model were from Codd and Date.

And really took off in the Unix platform. No one would have cared about them if they'd stayed in the mainframes. Received on Wed Aug 17 2005 - 19:27:22 CDT

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