Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov
From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Network vs. Relational DBMSs
Message-ID: <495@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 88 06:10:58 GMT
References: <2550@sfsup.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <2550@sfsup.UUCP>, prj@sfsup.UUCP (P.Jayne) writes:
> There aren't a lot of defenders of pre-relational DBMSs out there it seems.
> I can no longer resist jumping into this.  I've been doing database and
> datacomm for over ten years now, ....................
> 
> 
> The Brooklyn Bridge is up for sale again, and there are lots of buyers...
> ... (treatise on why relational dbms's don't cut it)

  It's too bad that he hasn't been "doing database" for 15 years.  Then he 
  could have joined the large and vocal group who claimed that dbms's simply
  wouldn't stand up to plain old Cobol and assembler.  For the same reasons we
  are now told that relational is inferior......

     greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny.