Ryan Hoegg wrote:
My completely non-representative sample of other developers in real life
and on IRC seems to be becoming more and more aware of the option of a
native XML database. The first ones they hear about are usually Tamino
and Xindice. I think people are just starting to figure out where they
fit in to software solutions... relational databases have so much
mindshare its hard for people to consider hierarchical data storage at all.
We had a presentation at the Washington DC XMLUG by a Software AG guy in
which Xindice was brought up as well. At least Software AG seems to
think that NXD are on the rise, they are banking on it.
I hate to be a wet noodle or a wet blanket (or, now living in
England, anything wet), but I've been watching this project since
its days as dbXML, and while there are now and then a few people
who pipe up as interested, and even rarer a few who contribute
time and code, I look at that mythical number of 747,939 registered
SourceForge users and wonder if there are truly businesses and
people banking on native XML databases, how we can't seem to
locate even a handful willing and able to put time into Xindice.
Unless everyone is going to commercial DB, which is hard to imagine.
As I said previously, a project lives or dies by having a handful
of (or even one!) truly committed and talented people involved.
I've got a project of my own right now that has taken up the lion's
share of my time (like, night and day) for the past two years, so
I do speak from some experience. If Xindice had one or two people
similarly committed to its success, it would succeed. It won't
simply by having people wanting it, or "banking on it". There needs
to be some people *working* on it.
Murray
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
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is, never just a matter of how things in fact are in the nonhuman
world). [...] just as we should not look to ground our moral
judgments in the nonhuman authority of a god, so we should not
look to ground our empirical judgments in the nonhuman authority
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