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

IMO previous "incarnations" of the tool appeared for quite specific "environments" consistent of 1) a proprietory OS (E1) and 2) a proprietory DBMS (E2) of 20 years ago. Wang Laboratories had similar tools, as yet another example.

However the emergence of "mainline" RDBMS software from 1979 since that time has accelerated decline of the proprietory (R)DBMS environment (if it was not already in decline for other "environmental" reasons) in favour of major players Oracle, DB2 and SQL server.

So, because the environments are getting fewer, with the exception of special "heritage reserves" the former tools become gradually extinct.

"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:Mcbfe.7996$V01.2522_at_newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> 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)
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>
Received on Tue May 10 2005 - 09:42:13 CEST