Re: foundations of relational theory?

In article <bn8njp$1n8k$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com>, Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> writes
>"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:T1ljmMCJ9ul$EwsP_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...
>> EXCEPT this was an ACADEMIC study, not a MARKETING study, and as I
>> understand it, the researchers were surprised by the result.
>>
>> They picked a bunch of large companies with the idea of calculating db
>> spend as a proportion of turnover. No bias there. They plotted those two
>> figures, and were surprised to get a double peak. No bias there, either.
>>
>> When they investigated this unusual phenomenon, they discovered the low-
>> spending peak was almost entirely Pick-based dbs, the high-spending peak
>> was relational.
>
>What did they expect? If Pick was as expensive to run as Oracle, then nobody
>in their right mind would run it.
>
>I.e. It's market niche is low cost and low functionality.
>
>Or are you saying that it is as *functional* as an Oracle or DB2, and the
>only reason that it has not taken over the world is that old war horse:
>'poor marketing' ?!
>

Actually, YES!

Cheers,
Wol

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