Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

Frank Hamersley wrote:
> I just stumbled over this exchange from Oct 2005 on the TRM...
>
> http://www.dbms2.com/2005/10/10/17/
>
> It was authored by a "Curt Monash" - is he known to any CDT'ers and/or
> credible?
>
> Is there any veracity in _any_ of the claims made by _any_ of the parties?
>
> Given lots of mud gets flung as the discussion proceeds so I wondered if
> there was any corroborative or contrary sources.
>
> Cheers, Frank.

Curt Monash has been discussed a few times at dbdebunk.com.

[This is my remembrance.]

There was, a while ago, a Curt Monash online article in Computerworld in which he proposed a DBMS2. The tenet, as I recall, was that SQL databases - which he described as relational - were ill-suited for 'modern' data storage needs.

Fabian Pascal, I believe, took him to the woodshed in a vigorous exchange of "comment on this article" posts that, apparently, were edited by some keeper of the website.

Somewhere along the line, Curt brought in Chris Date's name. I don't recall the specifics, but it amounted to "Curt said Chris said..." when, in fact, Date hadn't participated at all.

Date took issue with that and posted something on dbdebunk.com.

Monash then obliquely engaged Date in the article you cited.

{/remembrance]

If you read it - and have any familiarity with what was supposed to be Date's "Go Faster!" - you might realize that many of the criticisms are off-point and that everything that's presented as a revelation was previously and carefully disclosed by Date himself.

I personally heard Date do this two summers ago... Received on Fri May 12 2006 - 04:45:19 CEST