Well, a few years back (I had not yet heard the term "Database" then), DB2 came out. Its 25th anniversay (June 08) is an appropriate time for reminiscing, again given the Jim Gray tribute we just had. Here are some articles on our 25th anniversary -- Eweek and InformationWeek. However, what makes me most excited is that far from being commodities, databases are hubs of innovations, with newer capabilities (some highlighted in the eweek article above) continuously being added in and around databases.
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Congratulations on the 25th anniversary! You say that innovations are continuously being added around the databases. That's nice, but how about innovations being added around the data and the 'database' becoming invisible? Can we get that in time for the 30th or 35th anniversary?
Posted by: Alon Halevy | June 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM
got it. actually just came from linked data conference, where data is the king, and database is ancilliary. see my next posting. btw, you still owe me some open data thing-amies :)
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | June 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM