[Discuss] Top Ten Dying IT Skills

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-06-20 10:08-0700 pw wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This link was forwarded to me by a co-worker regarding the
> top ten dying IT skills:
>
> http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-df448267-0124-4499&sub=208333

I thought the remark about hierarchical databases now being dead was
interesting in the sense I never knew they were ever a serious contender for
being "the" database of choice. That said, there are currently specialized
uses for hierarchical databases, and I don't think such use will ever go
away.  For example, I understand hierarchical databases are just the ticket
for Plone/Zope, and aren't there other specialize uses such as some of the
more sophisticated Linux file systems?

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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