Re: Linux alternative to m$ abscess?

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:38:34 -0400

Rolf Arne Schulze wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:18:04 GMT, Roger Blake wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:09:30 -0400, Sean <not.givens@spam_not2018.org> wrote:
>>
>>>I'll give you a hint, you are a dinosaur.
>>
>>I've been working with Unix and Unix-like systems for nearly 30 years
>>and am proud to be a "dinosaur." I'll give *you* a hint, when the
>>pretty pictures fail to come up, the GUI crowd still depends on people
>>who know how to work under the hood and get their hands dirty. I have
>>little need for the "point and click" stuff, it just gets in the way
>>most of the time. (In fact my only real use for X is to bring up
>>multiple xterms.)
>
>
> Yes, but are you an average user? Do you really think a normal user should
> have to have 30 years of unix experience to create a simple
> single-table database?
>
Of course not, but I have never seen a database with only a single
relation in it either. Usually there are several relations, some with
foreign keys, and people do joins on them. If they are properly
normalized, anyway. If you need only a single relation, why not just use a
spread***? 

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