WANTED: Opinions on MUMPS and MUMPS vs. ? (redux)

Once more with feeling . . .

This is the first repost of a request for opinions. Responses to date (about a dozen) have helped reshape the questions a little.

If you have any experience with MUMPS as a DBMS-oriented language, please let me know of your opinion.

1. How do MUMPS implementations of a DBMS, e.g . VA FileMan, compare with the usual RDBMS products, e.g. Oracle, Informix, Sybase, others in terms of
   • capacity,
   • performance,
   • flexibility?
2. What do you think of MUMPS futures? What'll it look like and how will it behave 10 years from now?

If sufficient interest, I will post a summary or digest of messages received to group comp.databases sometime in July or so.

Thanks in advance,
jeff "hawkeye" sanders

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