At the UC, I will be moderating a BoF session on the History of Database Systems on Tuesday evening at 19:00 PM. I plan and hope that this will be an open discussion, the topics I would want to discuss are:

• The history (I will prepare a few things myself in this area).
• The current state of things (SQL, the state of the "old" technologies (Network, File bases, Hierarchical) etc.
• "Failed" technologies (ORDBMS, Object databases etc).
  
• What's coming down the road (Specialized database systems, NoSQL, BI orieted systems, Column based stores with SQL or not)

I would be glad f you would attend, I'd really like this discussion and subject, and after it, I'd enjoy a beer in the bar, but that was obvious I guess.

/Karlsson