Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) --> changing vendor rule languages from Francois Bry on 2006-02-10 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from February 2006)

From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:06:17 +0100
To: public-rif-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <43EC4979.3040006@ifi.lmu.de>

Michael Kifer wrote:

>In 1982, SQL market was infinitesimally small compared to other DB
>products.  And those competitors were arguing that the needs of their
>customers are perfectly met by hierarchical DB products. They also used to
>claim that relational DBs will never fly because they are unimplementable,
>non-scalable, cause leprosy and impotence. Are we hearing the same arguments
>again? ;-)
>  
>
It was also said that relational databases were purelly academic and 
subjects for further PhDs.
-- 

Francois

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