> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Colquhoun > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV > > At 02:59 AM 18/05/2004, Stevenson, Charles wrote: > > >Read "Things You Should Never Do, Part I", by Joel Spolsky, > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html, for an > example > > from Netscape. Search for "rewrite" in that site's archives for > > articulate apologies for favoring old code. > > Interestingly more recently: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20030601.html > > They changed the name to firefox which you can download here: > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ > > From using the above for the previous year or so it is markedly superior > to ie(tabbed browsing, inbuilt search bar for google, ebay, dictionary > lookups, popup blocking). Sadly it is likely only to ever have <5% market > share. > > On the original point of dawn collecting material for future flame wars on > comp.databases.theory:
You got me wrong -- I'm not into flames, I'm just trying to learn why all database textbooks cling to theory related to SQL-based databases, teaching 1NF as if it were the only mathematically-valid approach. > choosing only the failed conversions and ignoring > the successful conversions will quickly be exposed. A much better tactic > is to stay positive and sell the benefits of whatever solution you are > pushing, this would involve showing how easy it is convert to and from mv > systems to other existing systems. I'm really not in a selling mode, but a learning one. I'd like to better understand why companies are spending so much money on Oracle, for example, and whether they think they are getting a good ROI on their investment or simply don't know any better solution. > A list of conversion failures might have nasty unintended consequences: > it > would show a future prospective mv customer once they chose a mv solution > there was no way ever they would be able to leave. I recognize that could be a possible conclusion that one could draw. Since I'm not looking to sell, but to understand, then if that is really the case, then I want to better understand that too. I might look like I'm selling, but in this case I am really trying to understand why what I have learned related to databases in my reading and what I have seen with my eyes are so contradictory. Cheers! --dawn > - Robert > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
