From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T01:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:25:09PM +0900, Clifford Heath wrote:
> 
> Ok. Perhaps you can explain just how vendor lockin would cause me
> to loose (sic) data? I still have the files, and the software, and
> the hardware, and backups or redundancy for all. Where's the chance
> of loss that's mitigated by having the source code as well?

One doesn't lose data because of vendor lock-in.  One loses (easy)
access to data because of vendor lock-in (coupled with some form of
vendor lock-out, of course -- data locked into a given format, user
locked out of the software one uses to access it).

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