I'm currently fetching data from a Java source which is giving me back XML (one of the world's biggest poker networks), it looks something like this:
<xml> <header>fieldname1;fieldname2</header> <data>data1;data2::data1;data2</data> </xml> Everyone who really has to send A LOT of data back and forth ends up doing something like the above ;-) Anyway, given the above it made me smile reading that article. It's annoying that good marketing can impose such bullshit on our industry, I mean we're supposed to be more rational than most people aren't we? /Henrik On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Randall Dow<r...@randix.net> wrote: > Must reading for anyone designing data storage! > > > How XML Threatens Big Data > http://dataspora.com/blog/xml-and-big-data/ > > (and I will add, little data, too.) Anyone for WSDL? What a catastrophe. > > Flame bait: > -------------------------- > Java was invented (mainly marketed) by Sun in order to increase HW > sales. Most of the big business where I have worked (banks, mobile > telecoms) could do with less than 1/4th (1/10th??) of the HW they have > today, if they used reasonable software. It is all Java, XML, Oracle, > and SOAP. =A0It is very appropriate that Sun is being eaten (for > dessert) by Oracle. Sun started by trying to change the world with > unix but has fallen prey to the mass Java marketing that they started. > (ok, I didn't get all of that out of the article above, but it is my opin= ion.) > -------------------------- > Flame off! > > Alex, I like picolisp and its data storage! > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=3dunsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe
