Normally, I'd agree with you. Except here, the guy who is saying "the old thing is dead!" is one of the guys who invented the "old thing." Stonebraker was amo

Normally, I'd agree with you. Except here, the guy who is saying "the old thing is dead!" is one of the guys who invented the "old thing." Stonebraker was among the first to implement a functioning relational database, and I don't think you can underestimate the importance of the Ingres papers to the field.