Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
At 09:02 AM 3/8/99 -0800, Jerome McDonough wrote: >I share your skepticism, but we can hope. If nothing else, there appears >to be at least the dawnings of an understanding among the major DBMS >vendors that there's a huge market for text management/retrieval products. >Some of the approaches taken by the object-oriented database folks, like >Informix's data blades, struck me as having promise. There's the rub. *Is* there really a huge market for text management/retrieval? The history of software is littered with the corpses of companies who tried to make a go of it in that area; I know from personal experience that up to and through the year 1996, there was *not* any such huge market. Will XML change that? It would be nice to think so. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
|
