I've been thinking about a number of things lately as I look at a number of technologies. I think there's a growing programmer's revolt against the DBAs. Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like that is what is happening (and no I'm not talking about Frans' comment or my response in another blog entry).
I'm looking at the whole O/R Mapper thing, the object persistence stuff, and the OODB stuff and I think I see a trend. Are developer's rebelling against the relational database? Has the traditional relational database run it's time and is it over (because it's not object oriented)? Is this about the fact that DBAs tend to hold a lot of power over many of us? Is SQL too hard? Is there a rebellion against learning yet another language (or at least keeping it up to date)?
I don't know. It does seem like there are thos in the industry who are trying to steer us either away from writing database code or they're steering us away traditional Relational DBs in general.
Is the traditional RDBMS over?