• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@s...>
• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>,XML Everywhere <host@x...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:21:03 -0400

At 09:16 AM 10/20/2001 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>To them, the vendors of hierarchical databases were so well established 
>that there was no way this could ever change. As you know, at this point, 
>it took only a couple of years to wipe hierarchical databases out.

Actually, there is still a LOT of data in hierarchical databases, and some 
new development. Nothing that works well is ever wiped out. I envision a 
world with both relational and native XML databases - together with 
hierarchical ones.

Jonathan

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