Since we're talking about databases...

[Tim Bray]

One reason that I've been particularly interested in these threads is that 
I've been doing a bunch of work for a German company named Software AG.  
Those who have some grey hairs will remember a database package named 
"ADABAS" that used to be hot stuff in pre-relational days (still is 
pretty hot stuff, but marginalized due to being non-relational).

Anyhow, they've been working on a REALLY BIG REALLY FAST xml data store,
and have actually started talking a little bit about this in public: 
check out

  http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/press/jan99/e-cebit.htm

Pretty thin information as yet, but people who are interested in wrangling
XML en masse should keep an eye on these guys. -Tim

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)