Re: db2 vs oracle

From: Michael D. Long <michael.d.long-nospam_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:51:03 -0400
Message-ID: <VvKdnWQaq62EM9rcRVn-rA_at_comcast.com>


And I thought I was the only person on the planet that sees anything wrong with XML. The first time I saw an article espousing the benefits of this great new tool (some idiot calling it the "new ASCII" - doh!) all I could see was a bloated pig of a format that looked like it spewed forth from the mind of a juvenile delinquent. That it has made its way into the DBMS engines shows that people have more computing resources than they have good sense.

-- 
Michael D. Long


"robert" <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com> wrote in message 
news:da3c2186.0408300407.3eeb365d_at_posting.google.com...

> Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message
> news:<CxGXc.19631$A8.18211_at_edtnps89>...
> ...Sybase sold their soul to Microsoft by
>> giving them what is now SQL Server.
>>
>
> and all of them, near as i can tell, have sold their souls to
> XML Data Storage, thus eviscerating the relational model, and
> taking us back to IMS. i hope they're all Real Proud of themselves.
>
> annoyed and distraught,
> robert
Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 04:51:03 CEST

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