Bruce Toback wrote:

> The Java/JDBC/PostgreSQL model is a heck of a lot faster to develop
> for than COBOL/IMAGE/VPlus.

(a point many have been trying to make....)

> I found that I ended up using a hybrid
> style, neither pure network-like nor pure relational. This hybrid
> style results in a huge work savings over a network (IMAGE) database,
> but did not leave me at the mercy of the optimizer for complex
> hierarchical tasks.

and this is the beauty of leveraging what we know about a superior (but aging)
dbms onto (into?) newer technology.  we *know* how to make good efficient
databases (and i like to think that large portions of the rest of the world
don't :-) because we started with a good foundation.  that knowledge, that
expertise is worth more than a dozen oracle dba's.  i'll be the first to admit
getting from here (image/cobol/vplus) to there (postgre/jdbc/java) is a
significant challenge -- but that's never slowed us down before.

thanks, mark.  thanks, bruce.                 - d

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