Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote (in the middle of a fascinating article):
 
>I was going to save this for another target, but what the heck, it still
>lacks the punch of a home run hit that I wanted so I'll throw an attempted
>ground-rule double at you (speaking of analogies, where's Alfredo hiding?)...
 
Programming like crazy!  And working (on a variety of "formats") to spread
information about the strengths of the HP3000, MPE, and IMAGE :-)
 
ADBC is doing very well and the clever members of the world-wide ADBC team
are preparing some nice live prototype demos for HP World at Anaheim.
Remember: ADBC totally bypasses ODBC, JDBC, and other stuff that depends on
SQL (an inherently slow approach to things, as people who have attempted to
ECONOMICALLY and reliably hang a thousand users on an
Oracle/Sybase/Informix database have sadly found out).  ADBC goes straight
to the heart of the matter (information that resides in IMAGE databases) by
means of the native-mode IMAGE intrinsics (dbget, dbput, etc.)  Stay tuned
and come to my Anaheim presentation(s) for further details.
 
I am not doing any actual ADBC code (I have enough backlog with new Adager
functionality and performance).  The bright individuals who accepted the
ADBC challenge are doing that!
 
 
Thanks for asking.
 
Back to editing, compiling, linking, testing,...
 
 
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