Re:No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to ...
by rufus_foreman on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:27PM
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As Tom Kyte said:
"I take the view that applications come. Applications go. Applications come again and go again. But - the data, the data - oh, it stays and stays and stays and is used by application after application after application. And if you store your data perfectly for "the first application", it'll not be good for the future ones. And I don't see tons of data that isn't used by many applications (need many views of the same data). See, my goal is the data - knowing that applications are like Mayflies but data is more like a tree."
"I take the view that applications come. Applications go. Applications come again and go again. But - the data, the data - oh, it stays and stays and stays and is used by application after application after application. And if you store your data perfectly for "the first application", it'll not be good for the future ones. And I don't see tons of data that isn't used by many applications (need many views of the same data). See, my goal is the data - knowing that applications are like Mayflies but data is more like a tree."