Article:		Against the Grain
Subject:		data scope
Date:		2001-07-15 04:32:31
From:		jim fuller
long term requirements are different to short term , in the past 5-10 years databases have emerged from middleware to being in front of users eyeballs ( re EXCEL and ACCESS ), this has been a good and bad thing. i say submerge the db back into middleware, and to a certain degree most non-enterprise db requirements should reuse OS db functionality, something cheap and cheerful. in fact i am fairly certain that 80% of current small to medium scale database activities could easily be dealt with with a simple text file ( xml anyone.... ). indirectly quoting S. Meunch from XSLT uk conference, ' use rdbms sql to get smallest slice of required data, then use xslt to manipulate from there'. these statements all go out the window when talking about large scale implementations,which affects the top 1000-2000 companies worldwide, they will tend to build their own using larger application frameworks, such as oracle, etc. it makes sense in actual use, but unfortunately doesnt feel clean, and requires the use of more tools. i would expect convergance ( of xml and rdbms ) to occur over time, with xml repository being the name of choice. jim fuller

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