Jon Hylands wrote:

>> Well, a database lobby (let me name them such) succeeded to plant deeply 
>> in our minds a feeling of fear of anything else than a relational 
>> database. A fear of loosing your valuable data, that is. Fear, FUD, 
>> always a strong weapon...
> 
> Personally, I think you'd be better off using Magma rather than the image.
> I've played a bit with it, and have big plans for the future with it.
> 
> Have you tried it, and decided it wasn't usable for your application?

I admit I didn't look at Magma yet.

My comment was directed to relational database vendors, who control our 
database mentality and perceptions, and consequently a fear against 
databases like Magma (and Gemstone etc) too. But definitively against 
image as a database.

Why I like a concept of image as a database? Because it simply works, 
and that is my concrete experience. Also a fear of losing data is mostly 
baseless - a chance of losing data is very small, again from experience. 
So small that it is close to a chance of loosing of data on relational 
databases, I would say. That is a strong wording I know, but let we at 
least start thinking about this probability.

Janko

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si