Re: By The Dawn's Normal Light

Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:

>
> I've tried to back off being explicit about caring about the old-fashioned
> model I'm using. My interest is in the future. But since you asked and
> since I think it provides a lot of clues as a bridge to the future, I'll
> answer. I use IBM UniData or UniVerse, aka U2. These are clean room
> implementations of the developer and user interfaces to the Pick
> OS/database. These run in a p-code virtual machine (not unlike a jvm) and
> many large companies have many large applications running using these
> databases. I won't say that the Pick model, designed in the early to mid
> sixties, is the future, but when looking at where the industry should go
> from here, I'd rather start there and move forward and leave the big,
> bulky
> RDBMS's behind. smiles. --dawn
>
Have bookmarked the page, thanks.

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