Okay, this became a challenge to me ... I've written up a rebuttal to the
original post, at

http://www.xmltoday.org/content/xml-threatens-big-data-bull

The more I read the post, the more I realized how much of this is just FUD,
and not even recent FUD.

Kurt Cagle
Managing Editor
http://xmlToday.org


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Carver <d_a_carver@y...> wrote:

> Kurt Cagle wrote:
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>> Of course, that would require that the author spend some time learning
>> XQuery. What is it about programmers that if the code isn't in their
>> absolute favorite language then they think the technology sucks?
>>
>>  Kurt that is because most programmers in the field aren't Craftsmen, and
> just doit becuase they are paid to do it.  If a framework doesn't do it in
> their favorite language, they don't want to take the time to self educate to
> learn something new that may get it done.
>
> I agree, that XML Databases are the way to deal with large data, but most
> of the people out there doing the work, don't know about them.
>
> Dave
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