home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!pnl-oracle!news
- From: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
- Subject: Re: New Model
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.001405.24006@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:14:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oracle.1993Jan13.001405.24006
- References: <1993Jan7.183127.1418@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@oracle.pnl.gov
- Reply-To: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Organization: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
- Lines: 42
-
-
- In article <1993Jan7.183127.1418@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- |>Path: pnl-oracle!ogicse!clark!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!butch!iscnvx!news
- |>From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- |>Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
- |>Subject: New Model
- |>Message-ID: <1993Jan7.183127.1418@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- |>Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:31:27 PST
- |>Article-I.D.: iscnvx.1993Jan7.183127.1418
- |>Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- |>Reply-To: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- |>Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- |>Lines: 58
- |>
- |>I read the latest trade magazines on the subject of new distributed
- |>processing technology and ATM. They are close, but haven't quite gotten
- |>it as far as it should be.
- |>
- |>The current client server applications work just fine with the current
- |>networking systems. The issue here is replacing the client server model
- |>with the semantic data model, and whether the replacement can be
- |>accomplished without some virtual path network technology.
- |>
- I think I would object to a database paradigm tied to a network
- protocol layer.
-
- |>We want the data base theoreticians to include virtual path networks into
- |>their model. Hopefully they will begin to see that a traditional router
- |>or bridge, is simply an index on some class; that a shortest path is simply
- |>a semantic reduction. Then they can begin to think about the network
- |>management issue in terms of semantic theory; and conversely, think about
- |>the virtual path networks as a connectionist machine.
- |>
- --
-
- Communications methods change faster than the ether that blows it,
- when ATM is superseded (read obsolete) so will your database schema.
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To Thyne Own Self be true...
- myne opinions are.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-