On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Daniela Florescu wrote:
>> No, for XQuery that's not obvious it all.
>
> !?
>
> It might not be obvious to you, but that was definitively clear for
> my previous employer (BEA Systems) and more importantly
> it is clear for my current employer (Oracle Corporation).
Lots of things that big companies think are important turn out to be
disappointing. Your current employer, if I recall correctly, was at
one point telling the world that video-on-demand was the key
application on the "Information Superhighway", and has repeatedly
decreed that the time for Network Computers had come. And Oracle isn't
especially stupid, it's just that sometimes big-company bets are wrong.
Think of OSI networking, Ada, the Fifth Generation project, Blackbird,
Bob, and so on and so on.
XQuery will be a success when people start using it in large numbers
because it solves their problems. Which could very well happen, but,
as I said, it's not "obvious". -Tim
