[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> IMHO, it would have to be somehing like the embedded databases
> like those that Android uses internally. A database like Rdb is
> best left for the heavy load with the applications.


I don't understand this.  A database is a database, regardless of many 
things.  1 table or 100 or ????,  One column in a table or many columns. 
  One row in a table, or many.

Now, if you're saying this from a cost perspective, as things are now, 
I'd agree with you.  But from a technical perspective, I don't 
understand why there might be a problem.

If the idiots that gave RDB to Oracle hadn't done so, perhaps DEC would 
still exist, and perhaps it would be Ken who owned the island, not 
Larry.  DEC could have ported RDB to other OSs and perhaps been the 
dominate database vendor.