Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!msrtrans!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Bob Badour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Concurrency in an RDB References: <1165544057.433915.4620@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1165564572.553799.62710@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165591612.441816.290650@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2kgeh.30158$cz.453890@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> <1165912207.719331.162070@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:54:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.111.41 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1165938860 142.176.111.41 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:20 AST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:20 AST Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:160374 X-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:54:21 EST (text.usenetserver.com) Bob Badour wrote: > monarodan@gmail.com wrote: > >> To all those stating that David should do some background reading - did >> you bother to look into Operational Transform (OT) as mentioned by >> David? There is potentially a whole new way of thinking about databases >> and distributed systems that should not be ignored. > > What's new about it? I saw nothing novel in his suggestion. Let me clarify the question: How does David's operation transform proposal differ from "update anywhere-anytime-anyway" mentioned (not quite a decade ago) in: http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=P115