is it an indexable archive of information or is it an archive of line items, one is searchable to the infinite progression the other is searchable to the original documention, indexed. To me the database of the future will include calls to open the 3rd party blob and grep on instances of search. So select * from foo where foo:blob:*|grep nodename will work on a Domino webbase that contains spreadsheet, word processing and other datasources. When hitting such a blob a corba call could call an orb and extent such info as much as possible and report it to the query. A database would have to recognise the blob, decide which entrant to use for maximum effectiveness, extract and parse the nescessary data and would enhance the use of opensource greatly.
copyrighted June 21st 2003
thanx.
bill