Readers of my and C. J. Date’s material are familiar with our
support of the TransRelational™
Model as a superior implementation technology for truly relational DBMSs
(TRDBMS). On several occasions, be it on this site or elsewhere—most recently
in two Curt Monash
blogs—whether voluntarily, or when I was suspected or accused of ulterior
motive, I stated that neither I nor C. J. Date have “any interest whatsoever in
the company or technology beyond our belief in the merit”.
While this has always been true of me, I just found out that
it was inaccurate for C. J. Date. Consequently, I have requested, and am
posting below a formal disclosure from him, to set the record straight.
I understand that Fabian Pascal recently claimed that I had
no personal interest in TransRelational technology. That claim is not quite correct.
The true situation is as follows.
First, let me quote an excerpt from the preface to the book I wrote on this subject
(GO FASTER! THE TRANSRELATIONALTM APPROACH TO DBMS
IMPLEMENTATION, to appear):
In the interests of full disclosure, I must make it clear
right away that this book was written under a contract with Required
Technologies [the company that owns TransRelational technology];
nevertheless, "the views expressed are my own," as they say--indeed,
I wouldn't have signed the contract in the first place if I hadn't been so
profoundly impressed with the technology.
And I went on to say:
History does repeat itself, sometimes.
As you might already know, I wrote a book
some years back on the subject of business rules, entitled WHAT NOT HOW: THE BUSINESS RULES
APPROACH TO APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ... In the preface to that earlier
book, I said this:
I must make it very clear right away that the book is not
impartial. I'm very enthusiastic about
business rules!--and I hope you will be too, when you've finished reading.
In other words, this is definitely a book
with an attitude: It explicitly
champions the business rules idea, and it describes and explains what in my
opinion are the merits and benefits of that idea. Why am I so enthusiastic?
For two reasons: because of what the technology can do, and because it
is so squarely in the spirit of "the original relational vision."
Replace the references to business rules in this extract by
references to TransRelational technology instead, and the resulting text
applies 100 percent to the book you're looking at right now.
Analogous remarks apply to all of my writings and
presentations on TR technology.
In a phone conversation, Date said that he has been
volunteering work as a member of the company’s scientific advisory board, and
that he might receive compensation for his work if and when the company
succeeds.
Any questions or comments on this matter should be directed
to C. J. Date.
Posted 10/08/05
