640KB ought to be enough for anyone: "In each case, the designer encountered requirements that made it difficult to build their application on top of standard relational databases or file systems. And in each case, the designer ended up saying "now that we've invested in this framework, let's offer it as a platform so that other developers can plug in their own modules and custom schemas, and a powerful ecosystem will naturally emerge!" But it hasn't happened."
# Apr 13, 2004