> (I’d hoped that, by now, they’d have a more complete implementation; > one problem seems to be that they don’t get enough support calls > relating to XQuery support issues, and hence think it not widely > used) > I’ve worked on several commercial database products in the past, and it’s a familiar story. The pressure, via the support and marketing channels, seems to come disproportionately from the top 5% of users who are already so heavily committed to your product that standards conformance comes well down the list of things they need, when compared with things like fault-tolerance and parallel processing and the latest fashion in optimistic concurrency control. And marketing people are a bit distrustful anyway of features whose main benefit is that it will make it easier to switch vendors.
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