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by Tim DiChiara, Editor
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Does good middleware give your DBMS a bad name?
Database Trends and Applications columnist Joe McKendrick recently opined that sophisticated middleware is increasingly stealing power from traditional database management systems. With middleware playing an ever more important role in the multi-DBMS enterprise -- one estimate says 60% of all IT applications will soon be connected to middleware -- how important will your database be in the
future?
(For you newbies, a definition of middleware can be found here.)
Joe continues: "Could the database itself evolve to a point where it merely serves as the low-level repository for primary data-handling tasks handled at the middleware level?"
And then he drops this bomb: "As more organizations evolve to a Web services-based SOA [service-oriented architecture], many applications may no longer be built on top of databases.... In two or three years, when you build an application, it will talk to services within the SOA, not the database. The service will provide the information, from wherever the database is sitting. The database will become more of an enterprise-level service that's offered for everyone."
As if you database pros didn't already have enough to worry about -- with outsourcing, remote administration, automation, etc -- now you can add the threat of irrelevancy (or extinction?) from once-lowly middleware technologies.
Worried? Indifferent? Confused? Let me know what you think!
Cheers, Tim
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Featured Expert Mich Talebzadeh, Principal Consultant, Peridale Ltd
Category: Sybase
Mich Talebzadeh is a database expert with DBA and architecture experience using Sybase and Oracle. He specializes in creating database architectures for large global trading systems involving heterogeneous databases. Mich is based in London and serves as Chairman of the Sybase Future Forum. He is a frequent speaker at Sybase Techforum and other international database conferences. Dr. Talebzadeh holds a Ph.D in Particle Physics from Imperial College, University of London and C.E.R.N., Geneva,
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