Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 01/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:34:10 GMT

On 3-Jan-2004, Doug Scott <dwscott@ieee.org> wrote:

> > The current trends are for processing power to increase and transaction
> > costs to decrease. I am speculating on a FUTURE, not what is current.
>
> Sure. We're doing now what we couldn't do in the past. It still requires
> non-zero resource utilisation.

Also - batch output can be shared without re-creating it. A batch snapshot
that is created is out there and has different security and conflict
requirements. Some users just don't have the privilege to get to the source
data - but have authority to look at the results of a batch process. Sure,
there are ways around this - but they are generally a pain.

Another comparison between batch and on-line is in incremental and full backups.
  Will we ever stop doing both?

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