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The Heritage and Legacy of M (MUMPS) and the Future of YottaDB

posted by martyb on Sunday September 09 2018, @02:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-that's-old-is-new-again dept.

canopic jug writes:

Database engineer K.S. Bhaskar has written about how YottaDB relates to M, also known as MUMPS. MUMPS, a fast, cross-platform nosql database standard (ISO/IEC 11756:1999), can even be found powering health care and financial systems.

In computing, the term legacy system has come to mean an application or a technology originally crafted decades ago, one important to the success of an enterprise, and which at least some people consider obsolete.

But age alone does not make something obsolete – we still read and appreciate Shakespeare a half-millenium after his death, and paper clips from over 100 years ago are still familiar to us today, We must recognize that software is also part of our technical and cultural heritage (see Software Heritage).

As in much else in our daily lives, legacy and heritage are intertwined.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:13PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:13PM (#732582)

    the people whose livelihood depends on selling you some new piece of shit
    that will be unsupported when it isn't cool anymore.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @12:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @12:54AM (#732621)

    Alternatively,

    the people whose livelihood depends on selling you some new piece of shit
    to keep the old piece of shit alive on life support
    sunk cost fallacy
    burma shave

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @12:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @12:59PM (#732739)

    too late
    the nosql fad faded a decade ago
    model204 was the shit but now its dead
    too late
    come again in a few decades when all that is old is new again