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To: RDH who wrote (11692)	8/19/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: treetopflier	Read Replies (1) of 14631

<The information age is moving from linear information to dimensional information.> Yes. True. But more broadly, we are moving more towards "information entropy". We have redundant information everywhere, a lot of it in personal storage now. How many places can you get a stock quote today? Spatial data is just another organizational technique. The concept of entropy in physics is very applicable to where we are headed. Everyone has access to everything, all the time, from anywhere. Then what? Does information lose value if it is available to all freely? Or is it then infinitely valuable? The Wired pundits would claim it is then infinitely valuable. The result of entropy would lead me to the opposite conclusion, but maybe the analogy just doesn't stretch that far. The "Network Age" has dawned. Information, services, people and programs are everywhere on the "Network". Its about connections, not information organization methods. Interesting in the article you reference dmreview.com that they are still talking about the emerging SQL3 standards. There have been 'emerging' since 1992. It they ain't emerged yet, they ain't a comin'. What is their current scope? That was the primary problem in the early 90's. Can't imagine it has gotten narrower. Trying to incorporate 'procedural' standards which are essential language based, not mathematics oriented was the stumbling block. Have they started over and adopted Java or something? I've gotten away from them. IFMX has always been a sound engineering company with robust technology. Unfortunately, ORCL and IBM have always had 10 to 20 times the sales manpower. In three years at ORCL in the mid-90's I only had to compete head to head with IFMX three times, and it was a big city. ttf

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