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Subject: Forrester Report
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Date: 21 Dec 92 23:30:45 GMT
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I just read the results of the Forrester Group on the market size
for ATM (Comm Week).  They claim it is going to be a mere $50 million
in 1994.

Their report takes in to account today's applications and simply
extrapolates them.  The report does not take into account the database
technology coming on line right now which automatically utilizes multiple
processors, and hence drives the network bandwidth to new levels.

I have already seen two GUI data base interfaces which allow the user
to construct intelligent "browsers" that operate with highly recursive
and parallel migrations over multiple processors.

The ATM market problem is that the two technologies are converging, but
the ATM vendors and data base vendors are just barely aware of each other,
and what awareness they have is due only to this newsgroup.

I am already picking up technology reports which discuss modifications
of Access Query Protocols to allow automatic path discovery over virtual
path networks.  This technology, when combined with the user interfaces,
will allow query optimization to proceed recursively right through the
cell relay networks, essentially making call set up implicit in the
query optimization.