Re: First Impressions on Using Alphora's Dataphor
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 05:24:17 GMT
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 05:24:17 GMT
Message-ID: <52dZc.216184$8_6.123794_at_attbi_s04>
[Quoted] "Paul G. Brown" <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:57da7b56.0408310834.382e95e5_at_posting.google.com...
>Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 07:24:17 CEST
> On the other hand, the theory and practice of information management
> continues to be important and to grow new limbs. How are we going to
> cope with inputs from a pervasive computing infrastructure? What is the
> most useful level of abstraction at which to view distributed hardware
> resources? These challenges are driving requirements for which the
> DBMS model of the world--either SQL DBMS or TR DBMS--is entirely unsuited.
An interesting assertion. Do you have anything to back it up? To my mind, the relational model has a lot of relevance to the questions you ask. Marshall