Obviously, there's lots of political aspects. But there's also a gazillion tools, methods,
documents, and knowledge that deal with information management and business
intelligence. I have serious doubts that any XML-based technology will even have the
chance to reach that level of maturity anytime soon. It's always going to have to catch up
with the relational world, at least in the domain of business intelligence. Especially with
regards to data warehousing, reporting, OLAP, etc.  ...

--
Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/

--- In [email protected], Jan Algermissen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>

>
> The question propably is how to break the tyranny of the Relational 
> Data Model in general, at least at the application-to-application 
> level. Relational thinking is so ubiquitous that I doubt it ever 
> occurs to the vast mojority of IT staff that data modeling and data 
> access can also be done on the basis of quite different paradigms 
> (e.g. XML, RDF or service interfaces). And worse: usually it is 
> simply a non-option even to think about taking that direct SQL access 
> away from them. And often not even if they already experienced large-
> scale coupling on the database schema with changes to the scheme 
> being calculated in man years.
>
> Jan
>








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