Re: relational vs object

From: akmal _at_ city <_at_>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:31:33 +0000
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10203141922091.26000-100000@altair.soi.city.ac.uk>

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Nuno Souto wrote:

> Neil Burnett doodled thusly:
>
> >So, OODBMS are great for the programmer. I didn't read anything in
> >there about data integrity or ad hoc querying - the two most important
> >things for the end user.
>
>
> :-D
>
> Shhhhhhhh! End users don't count for the OODBMS brigade. They're
> just a nuisance that gets in the way of the "perfect model"...
>
>

Hmm... there is no brigade. More like a small cartload that keeps losing one every now and again (either because they disappear completely or decide that they are really EJB or XML vendors now).

akmal chaudhri
IBM developerWorks ------ www.ibm.com/developer/ City University, London - www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/ Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 13:31:33 CST