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On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:59 pm, Jonathan Robie wrote: > Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but in Gray's article, the > vision does not seem to include a middle tier. The database becomes the > center of the universe, and pretty much everything we associate with the > middle tier becomes part of the database. The database also takes on > some of the functionality traditionally associated with an operating > system. > > How likely is this? Do users want that level of centralization? I think that's pretty much right, and especially in smaller enterprises. They don't want to "buy" middleware because they have no comprehension of what it can or does actually do. But they cough up for a "real" database, be it whatever, because they've heard that they can be good and can understand what they are. As for the O/S (what it does), that's largely irrelivent now. Especially in a network setting. One suggestion I would have for companies like mysql is to get their database running on something like morphix so that the whole thing becomes self-contained, and is just a bootable CD. That would certainly suite a lot of smaller firms. And as an XML data store, I think that having something like that would be pretty cool... David -- Computergrid : The ones with the most connections win.
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