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At 4:37 PM -0800 3/8/1999, Tim Bray wrote: > 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 The Web has certainly raised the profile for text retrieval, and the amount of text online is larger than its ever been. A lot of text-management turns out to be going on in relational databases, and those are pretty big business. But the large content-management companies -- Verity, Open Text, Fulcrum (bought by PCDOCS recently bought by someone else) -- seem to be going through wild stock price variations recently. I've no idea what the future market will be: I find it all mystifying! BTW, Lisa Rein has written a report on the Query Language '98 workshop at W3C last year: http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/1999/03/quest/index.html It looks quite comprehensive to me, and all the position papers indicate that the topic is a hot one. Avi ________________________________________________________________ Avi Rappoport, Search Tools Maven: <mailto:avirr@l...> Guide to Site Indexing and Local Search Engines: <http://www.searchtools.com> 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...)
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