Earlier this month a database blog was established at www.databasecolumn.com as a platform for database luminaries such as Michael Stonebraker, Jerry Held and David Dewitt to share their thoughts on database technology and innovation. The prospect of hearing from these database giants on a regular basis caused great excitement in the database world and the first column, authored by Mike Stonebraker, has received tremendous coverage. Every time Mike Stonebraker forecasts the end of the RDBMS world it causes a stir. (more…)