Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

"Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com> wrote in message news:MW5kd.951$2h7.843_at_trnddc03...

> What does orthogonal mean? Does it mean that the intersecting vectors of
> relational and performance never ever really intersect? No.

In this newsgroup "orthogonal" has come to have a very special meaning. It's shorthand for the following:

'I want to dismiss your arguments as wrong or irrelevant, but I can't come up with any good way to refute the point you made and I can't show that it's not germane, either. So I'll call your point "orthogonal" to my point, and continue with my argument as if you had never made your point. ' Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 10:54:36 CST