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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Tim Bray wrote: > One reason that I've been particularly interested in these threads is that > I've been doing a bunch of work for a German company named Software AG. > Those who have some grey hairs will remember a database package named > "ADABAS" that used to be hot stuff in pre-relational days (still is > pretty hot stuff, but marginalized due to being non-relational). I don't remember ADABAS but I remember a database called S2K (which was also pre-relational). S2K was a hierarchical database. I worked with S2K a few years ago (many of the individuals on this list were probably still in diapers). I have often thought that a database like S2K with XML would be pretty powerful We ran a Personnel and Accounting Control System (PACS) that managed all the H.R. and Accounting information for 10,000 employees. Back then (in the dark ages) XML wasn't invented yet. I haven't heard of S2K applications in years but I have often thought that the hierarchical database model (one that isn't dependent on COBOL |-) and XML would be a pretty powerful team and the right tool for the job. I look forward to hearing more about ADABAS. Betty /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey | Phone: 301-540-8251 FAX: 4268 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | 13017 Wisteria Drive, P.O. Box 333 | Germantown, Md. 20874 | harvey@e... | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/sgmlug/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ 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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