• To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>
• Subject: Re: Caught napping!
• From: Tom Bradford <bradford@d...>
• Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:19:34 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: The dbXML Project
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"Champion, Mike" wrote:
> Speaking of XML and database management systems, Fabian Pascal has been
> reading the XML-DEV archives, and several of you now join me in having been
> "outed" as Bozos, I'm afraid. See his current postings at
> http://www.firstsql.com/dbdebunk/xmldev1.htm and
> http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid13_tax284872,00.h
> tml if your sense of self esteem is up to the challenge.
> 
> The gist of his position seems to be that the world would be better off
> building true relational DBMS systems and understanding their fundamentals
> rather than fooling with XML.  (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, etc. are not
> considered relational databases, in case you aren't aware of the precepts of
> Relational Fundamentalism).

Wow... Glad I'm not in his list of Bozos.  For as long as he's been
ranting about this stuff, I still haven't been able to figure out what
his point is, and what kind of bug crawled up his butt.  

Any ideas?

-- 
Tom Bradford
The dbXML Project
Open Source Native XML Database 
http://www.dbxml.org

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