[Taxacom] Wikispecies is not a database: part 3 (after thinking about it!)

[Jim Croft]

sniff.... FORTRAN... 80 columns... big iron... sniff... computer girls
in white labcoats... sigh... stacks of cards with holes... sniff...

a kinder, gentler age... sigh...

jim

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:
> Rod Page wrote...
>
> <snip>
>
> 1. The notion of a database espoused by Tony and Mike (i.e.,
> relational databases with tables with columns and rows) is but one
> view of databases, and a view some might say is old fashioned (key-
> value databases are the new hotness, there is a generation of
> programmers emerging for whom relational databases seem as relevant as
> FORTRAN).
>
> </snip>
>
> Maybe ... but tell me this: is there a single major database-driven biodiversity informatics provider that is NOT using a "conventional" relational database? My suspicion is that you are talking [b]leading edge here (if not vapourware) in the present context...
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Tony
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