Re: resolution of the inside/outside RDBMS dichotomy (was Re: Some Hype on "new" databases)

David Cressey wrote:

> Good point, mountain man.
>
> There was also a tool called "RALLY" in the VAX Information Architecture
> about 20 years ago that stored
> all of the specs as, roughly, configuration parameters inside a file
> called the "application file",
> and all the application data plus metadata inside an Rdb Database.
>
> All the RALLY developer did was to enter the configuration in a bunch of
> screens and forms, and RALLY did the rest.
>
> Not that your tool wasn't as good, or better. Just that this idea, in
> various guises, keeps coming around.
>

Any thoughts on why it seems to disappear as often as it comes around?

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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
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