Still the wave? More like the endless summer: IMS remains an IBM program product, as it has been since 1969, though the license fee has gone up a bit. There ha

Still the wave? More like the endless summer: IMS remains an IBM program product, as it has been since 1969, though the license fee has gone up a bit. There have been, and will continue to be, many ways to store and retrieve data without row-column relations or SQL. As others have noted, the key is to understand the application requirements, and to use the right tool for the job.