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

No really good thoughts on why they keep disappearing.

I think it's roughly for the same reason that airplanes land (almost) as many times as they take off.

"Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message news:iklvk2-689.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...
> 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?
>
> --
> Kenneth Downs
> Secure Data Software, Inc.
> (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Sun May 08 2005 - 00:22:36 CEST