Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

[Quoted] "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote:

>"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
>news:40bb57bc.12296150_at_news-read3.maxwell.syr.edu...
>> On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:28 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> OO was an important advance although botched-up and oversold.
>> >
>> >The same could be said about the Relational Data Model.
>>
>> No, The Relational Model is ellegant and undersold.

>Agreed.
>
>But every time someone comes up with a product that is called "Relational"
>and it turns out to be a botched up variation of the RDM, and the product
>is oversold, you take the easy way out and define that product as "not
>relational". Thus the pristine purity of your ideal model is never touched
>by the imperfections of an actual work of engineering.

     Well, is such a thing relational? Why is it the relational model has to be judged by something that does not implement it? Why not call it a bug?

>It reminds me of my friend who says "communism has never been tried."

     It has been tried. It has not been implemented.

>What are you going to do when you are ready to release the product you are
>working on?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.