> You really think that Oracle, IBM, Teradata etc. have a problem paying
> $200 for a standard? They are on the SQL Standard committee themselves,
> so they have plenty of spare copies. They would just much rather focus
> on where they are different and unique then help the commoditization of
> databases forward.
Hell no. I think individual developers have a problem paying $200 for a
standard and that's part of the reason why, compared to HTML, XML, CSS
and DOM, virtually all developers who work with SQL know next to nothing
about information_schema whereas they usually know a fair amount about
those others. Without the average developer having an understanding of
the information_schema standard they have little incentive to impelement
it. And certainly with individual developers knowing little to nothing
about it, we're not demanding standards compliance either the way we do
with W3C standards across browsers -- so that strips away most of the
incentives that have encouraged the growth of web standards.
--
s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch
isn't it time for a change?
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