Re: Is Ingres the wave of the future?

In <23n1ph$f78_at_news.mic.ucla.edu> ddruker_at_agsm.ucla.edu (Daniel Druker) writes:

>In article <CB79C4.6r0_at_nvl.army.mil> bajones@sparta (Ebeth Jones) writes:
>[Stuff about Oracle being about to go out of business and Ingres
>conquering the DBMS market]

[stuff deleted]

>I think Ingres has the most uncertain future of the big 4. Will it
>become the ASK database, an embedded product for their manufacturing
>products ? Why is ASK porting their tools to Oracle if they already
>own such as great DBMS ?

Since database engines are becoming a commodity, and the vendors' ability to innovate is to some extent hung up on SQL's intrinsic deficiencies and on SQL standardization efforts, it seems to me that the profit margin on DBMSs per se must get real thin real soon. In which case, it seems like a smart move for ASK to capitalize on the good reputation of its tool set by opening it up. The implication that the tool set is being rescued from a sinking DBMS ship is risible.

Evidently when you went back to school, you didn't completely shed your Oracle skin, recent assertions on comp.databases.ingres to the contrary notwithstanding. ;-)

>Good Luck,
 

>- Dan
 

>Daniel Druker
>Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA

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