I think he's correct in pointing out the trend of faster disk seeks and database accesses. But I don't think he's right in his assessment about Java (the langua

I think he's correct in pointing out the trend of faster disk seeks and database accesses. But I don't think he's right in his assessment about Java (the language) coming back. Java's not the only game in town on the JVM anymore. Clojure and Scala are options. Developers would do away with databases if they could, and just use data structures since objects don't map well to relational (ORM problem). So I think as disk access gets faster, either languages will move away from objects, or storage will move away from relational. And the techniques of ORM will only be reserved for really big data.