One has to be careful here. If everything on my computer is stored in a DB
I sure don't want it to be stored in a M$ database and since they control
the OS now they are really the only ones that could enforce this rule.

Jeff Jackson
DITW, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Lawrence [SMTP:kevin@...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:36 PM
> To: IBDI@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [IBDI] wishlist item is this possible?
>
> From: "Kevin Lawrence" <kevin@...>
>
> Edward V. POPKOV, Independent Developer wrote:
> > To me, server in general, and DB server specifically, is a robust,
> reliable
> > and protected installation of hardware with as robust and reliable
> software
> > running on it. This installation must be connected to backup device,
> must
> > have a hot-changeable RAID, UPS, a big boy with a gun at the door and a
> whole
> > lot of other things, barely possible for handheld, save the big boy :)
> Of
> > course, this doesn't make it a server by itself. I see DB server as an
> > appliance that provides every authorised person with possibilities to
> access
> > and manipulate data at any moment of time. As I said, this is hardly
> > imaginable for handhelds and at the present time I don't realize why
> someone
> > wants to have a server on handheld.
> > If I missed the point, please enlighten me, OK?
>
> There is a school of thought that says that _everything_ on your computer
> should be held in a database. With the advent of "object orientation"
> (see
> discussions of JDataSource regarding use as an ad-hoc object
> persistence/state maintenance mechanism) in modern databases, one can
> easily
> see this as an attractive eventuality. Note that MS is making some
> significant moves to enhance "storage" technology and services offered by
> the operating system: descriptions of this technology use an lot of
> "database-like" words.
>
> Maybe the network isn't the computer: the database is...
>
> 2 years from now, handhelds will have 32 to 64MB of RAM, and enough
> processing power to make a real database work. It might be an attractive
> place for IB to be.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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