Re: Multiplicity, Change and MV

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1145376755.915329.326680_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Tedd wrote:
>> Sounds like the short answer to my question is nobody on this newsgroup
>> really knows why folks like those listed in Dawn's earlier post would
>> use multivalue over relational. Of course, opinions abound!
>
> And no one really knows whether or why a company saves considerable
> dollars when they employ such systems. But having done considerable
> research on it, I have some more clues than when I started. In short,
> the data model for these products is far more flexible than the RM.
> This seems to translate into dollar savings, possibly even considerable
> dollar savings, over time. This is an opinion, but not just an
> off-the-top-of-the-head opinion.
>
> Cheers! --dawn
>

Dawn-

Another (rather obvious) problem with the comparison is it would require identical applications using the different approaches and tested over time for all costs associated with each technique. No real company would suffer such an expense, or more likely (as with the third brake-light proof) when one of the techniques begins 'lapping' the other the observers call off the contest before it can be completed.

non-theoretically speaking of course...;-)

BFaux- Received on Tue Apr 18 2006 - 12:08:31 CDT