> A number of years ago (1990), Stonebraker (et al) wrote a paper
> called the 3rd Generation Database manifesto...
>
> <<Stonebraker, M. , L.A. Rowe, B. Lindsay, J. Gray, M. Carey, M.L.
> Brodie, P. Bernstein, and D. Beech, "Third-Generation Data Base
> System Manifesto," ACM SIGMOD Record 19, 3, September 1990>>
>
> I don't know whether there are publicly available copies on the web,
> but I remember reading at the time that it came out....
> It came out after Stonebraker had created Postgres.....
> In it he defines the fundamantals of what he believed would be the
> "next" generation of relational database technology....
> Strangely enough many of the concepts he outlines were already in
> InterBase..
> If anybody finds a soft copy let me know. Its been a while since I
> read it, and it would be nice to post a link to it on IBPhoenix.

You can find it at:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/for90thirdgeneration.html

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy