Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? (Allan Packer's Weblog): " Relational databases simply absorbed their best features and continued to rule. Simple database features like triggers and stored procedures gave way to more sophisticated technologies like replication, online backup, and cluster support.
By the turn of the millenium, relational databases had already pretty much met the essential requirements of end users, and proprietary database companies were either pointing their vaccuum cleaners toward other interesting money piles, or losing the plot entirely and sailing off the edge of the world."
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