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Tim Bray wrote: > > >Own experience is that relational vendors are complete uncapableof providing a > >good solution for text retrieval. The products > >are usually very poor on the funcionality side and miserable on > >the performance side. > > That's really interesting information. This is about the 5th time > I've heard this; always anecdotal evidence, but it adds up. -Tim It would be interesting to know why. OTOH, there may be a market for add-in functionality for applications that are of smaller scale and tend to run locally. It may be that as we learned from HTML, trying to solve the ultimate problems before going to market is a way of staying poor. In the web business, and on every list I've participated in, it is always difficult to get folks to consider alternative markets for tools and content. For example, in VRML, there is an almost maniacal emphasis on the web while ignoring the CD market where the problems of "heavy" datatypes are evident. For example, any animation profits by *good sound* as can be provided in a wav file, the human voice, etc. It is only recently that some are waking up to the potential of marrying rock or pop albums to innovative 3D. Because of the need to rehost the art into new media every so often, there are lifecycle problems which open content standards help to solve just as markup technologies helped to solve these problems for long lifecycle document collections. Thar is life in them thar niches. :-) len 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/ 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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