"In a winner-takes-all environment, it is inevitable that every DBMS vendor will claim that their implementation, model or language is the one true way of managing data. This is in tension with standardization processes at the language level, which promises, but barely delivers, some degree of portability. The end result is the same as for everything capitalism touches. A race to grab territory and dig trenches around it, at the expense of innovation."

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