http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/ Thoughts on health, technology, and sometimes politics Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:45:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-6836 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:52:30 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-6836 [...] what the customers wanted. … So, what is this growing disconnect?” Those words were written in 2004 by Adam Bosworth, a veteren of Microsoft, Google and BEA. In the 7 years since things have only gotten worse. Open [...]

]]> http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-870 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:04:53 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-870 [...] the project as it was launched, I invoked Adam Bosworth’s seminal database piece, “Where have all the good databases gone.” The macro relevance was simple: databases had, Adam argued, taken one path while customers [...]

]]> http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-829 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:04 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-829 [...] “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted.” – Adam Bosworth, December 29th, 2004 [...]

]]> http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-766 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:51:22 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-766 [...] that had none of the above. Which indicates to me, as it seemingly did to Adam Bosworth when he spoke to a MySQL Conference audience back in 2004, that customers needs vis a vis the relational database [...]

]]> http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-755 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:51:03 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-755 [...] Read the article here. [...]

]]> http://adambosworth.net/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-651 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:37:44 +0000 http://adambosworth.wordpress.com/2004/12/29/where-have-all-the-good-databases-gone/#comment-651 [...] Should MySQL and Sun have any other technical concerns? A: Years ago, Adam Bosworth decried the limitations of the relational databases of the time, and the message is as relevant to MySQL [...]

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