Mike Stonebraker

And so you debit my account, you increment your account.

And these two agents have to agree to commit or you have to back everything out, which is to say the workflow needs to be what I called atomic, which is it all happens or it looks like it never happened.

And so I think the demands in this market will escalate with things with people wanting stuff to be read right.

And so I think that

That will bode well for the market and bode well for D-Boss.

Well, a file system written on top of a DBMS is faster than the Linux file system.

The scheduling engine is competitive with other scheduling engines.

You can make everything failover, so you get high availability without having to do anything else.

The answer is there's really no downside.

You hope they would.

In other words, you should keep all the device driver junk down at the bottom because there's a lot of it and no one wants to do that and replace everything else with the database implementation.

Back in the academic project, when I'd mention that to operating system folks, they would get very, very threatened, which is, this is the database guys trying to take over their turf.

And I think the programming language guys ditto, which is, you know, the

The way to implement the runtime for a programming environment is with a database.

Well, I mean, it took Java 10 years to become widely accepted.

I just think the time constant is substantial.

Okay, so I think two different things that I'd like to talk about.

The first one is...

Like everyone else, three years ago, we started to look at what were large language models good for.

So we've been trying to get what's now called text-to-SQL.