[Databases] grew up in a world where information was captured,
cleansed, and then fixed into a structure like an insect on a pin.
XML, in contrast, has evolved to deal with data in its more natural
form -- as scraps of information embedded in random unrelated
documents.
-- Kevin McKean, "When Worlds Collide",
InfoWorld, April 26, 2004, page 8.
Sometimes rubbing elbows in the cafeteria does more to promote data
sharing than a whole raft of technological advances...
-- Kevin McKean, "When Worlds Collide",
InfoWorld, April 26, 2004, page 8.