Roger Bamford, Principal Architect and Senior VP, Oracle Corporation all

Getting There -- The XML/XQuery Ecosystem

XQuery has the potential to be the language of choice for an integrated, single-language, 2-tier hosted multi-tenant application development and deployment platform that could displace SQL/Java/Javascript's nightmare of impedence mis-match, gratuitous cacheing, mid-tier code bloat, horrificly low productivity and excessive deployment cost.