Stonebraker has done a lot of fine work, but also has a lot of false negatives; he got down on recursive queries, on data-parallel compute, and generally most other things that he's not directly working on. It ends up with an in-crowd of folks who think he is great, and an out-crowd of folks frustrated by his constant unfounded dumping.
I've personally found it is hard to take him seriously when he says a thing, and you should first check which company he is currently flogging. Doesn't mean he is wrong, .. but check.
I've personally found it is hard to take him seriously when he says a thing, and you should first check which company he is currently flogging. Doesn't mean he is wrong, .. but check.