Agreed. Most development organizations, especially those in large enterprises, the primary users of RDBMS technology when this article was written, are more con

Agreed. Most development organizations, especially those in large enterprises, the primary users of RDBMS technology when this article was written, are more concerned with coming up with the correct solution at the fastest clip. As far as they're concerned, theory be damned. Relations provide a simple, easy-to-understand data modeling concept and the query language is relatively quick to pick up for most developers. RDBMS are like the Java of data containers. You'll never get fired for going with an RDBMS.