Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!bigtex!nueces!chari From: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Database Prowess Message-ID: <306@nueces.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 20:24:31 GMT References: <19350@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <2211@hub.UUCP> <89227.110740UH2@PSUVM> Reply-To: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) Organization: Nueces Inc.- Makers of Crelm(TM) Toothpaste Lines: 22 In article <89227.110740UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >Also, perhaps we should call this software something else. In some quarters, >"database" refers to the management of more structured material comprising >"entities" which have "attributes" (like Employee == name, age, salary, ssn ). >Since NeXT has (will have) such database capabilities, it is confusing >to call the Webster's and Shakespeare capabilities "database", too. What is wrong with "free-form database" and "relational database". That is what you have with "index" and Sybase SQL. >I suggest we call them "Information Retrieval" utilities. Gee, is seems like I just retrieved some information from Fourth Dimension awhile ago and that I just made a mod.recipes database with "index" a few days ago. Confusing?!? -- Chris Whatley chari@nueces.cactus.org P.O. Box 50254 !nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78763 chari@walt.cc.utexas.edu 512/499-0475