From: TH
To: Editor

 

I just came across this at--of all places--Oracle's Web site.  It's in a paper Oracle XML DB Frequently Asked Questions (page 5) at [an Oracle web site]. I guess we should all stop buying Oracle's RDBMS.

 

“Storage Independence When you use relational design, you client programs need to know where your data is stored, and in what format, what table, and what the relationships are between those tables. XML Schema allows you to write applications without that knowledge, and allow the DBA to map structured data to physical table and column storage.”

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

To: TH

 

There is no RDBMS. Oracle is a SQL DBMS.

 

 

From: TH

 

Yes, true.  I thought of that after I sent the email.  But if Oracle is to take their own statement about their XML database seriously, they should be encouraging all their SQL DBMS customers to migrate to the XML DBMS, in order to achieve "storage independence".  Perhaps the headline should be "Oracle declares flagship product obsolete."

From: Fabian Pascal

 

Why don't you contact their product-marketing manager and suggest this to him. It would be interesting to know his reply.

 

Posted 07/11/03

 

 

 

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