http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/database-war-stories-db-vs-square-files/ and I mean it Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:46:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/database-war-stories-db-vs-square-files/#comment-1294 ine Fri, 05 May 2006 11:07:12 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/database-war-stories-db-vs-square-files/#comment-1294 jakkie, you are from the stone age or what ;) jakkie, you are from the stone age or what

]]> http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/database-war-stories-db-vs-square-files/#comment-1292 (Anonymous) Fri, 05 May 2006 11:02:19 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/database-war-stories-db-vs-square-files/#comment-1292 Even nowadays at Tele Atlas, "production" software (used to actually draw digital maps from paper or satellite material) still runs on a file-based internally developed format... Several projects to migrate to Informix or Oracle failed because because of the huge amount of legacy software running on this file system. (The handling and extraction of the data into commercial products however, is done with RDBMS systems) Even nowadays at Tele Atlas, “production” software (used to actually draw digital maps from paper or satellite material) still runs on a file-based internally developed format…
Several projects to migrate to Informix or Oracle failed because because of the huge amount of legacy software running on this file system.
(The handling and extraction of the data into commercial products however, is done with RDBMS systems)

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