Re: Nested structures

From: dawn <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com>
Date: 15 Sep 2006 14:52:11 -0700
Message-ID: <1158357131.382329.254370_at_k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


Rob wrote:
> Where can I find this paper?

Sorry I missed that little detail, Rob, as I had intended to include it:

This paper is posted on the right had side of the U2 home page: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/u2 and the URL is

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/whitepapers/202452.pdf

--dawn

> dawn wrote:
> > Some, but not all, of you will find this new IDC paper entitled
> > "Because Not All Data is Flat: IBM's U2 Extended Relational DBMSs" to
> > be of interest.
> >
> > Other than the fact that the term "flat" is used, which I know can be
> > inflammatory in this NG, are there other logical responses?
> >
> > I think the term "embedded" is misleading, given the number of
> > companies that use these DBMS's for their enterprise systems. But I do
> > understand that IBM has to be careful to position each of their
> > offerings somewhat differently.
> >
> > The information about the embedded market growing faster than the
> > relational market is quite interesting. Perhaps there is and should be
> > a different theory related to those DBMS's currently called "embedded"?
> >
> > Cheers! --dawn
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