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From: theisen@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Barbara Theisen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Summary of fututre trends in databases
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Date: 3 Jan 90 21:12:37 GMT
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I am looking for an article that summarizes the future directions of
database systems in not too technical terms.  This for distribution
to attendees at a seminar on database systems, where the crowd is
expected to be pretty naive...probably 75% have never heard of normalization.
Most of the attendees will be interested in the pc market, but some will
be interested in high performance databases on larger systems, distributed
databases, object oriented databases, etc.  Anyone seen anything like
this recently?  I am sure that I've read things of this type, but I can't 
seem to locate any of them.  Actually, I'm sure I've heard Dr. Stonebraker
speak on the subject, so I bet he has published something like this somewhere.
I will be happy to track down any references you can suggest.

                       Barbara Theisen



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Barbara Theisen                        Computer Programmer/Database Consultant 
Madison Academic Computing Center      Internet: theisen@macc.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin - Madison   
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