[geeks] OED Wins! ;^)

[Lionel Peterson]

--- vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > just query the OED from any $RDBMS-compatible program.
> 
> What?  You prejudiced against heirarchical databases!?

IMS ROCKS!

What was the greatest contribution to Database tech. in the last 25-30
years? IMS. How? Mr. Codd tried to make sense of IMS, and said "There
must be a better way", and the relational model was the result of his
thinking... ;^)

I used to work with IMS, and it was good...


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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