Databases and the Web: What's in it for Databases? (Panel)

Database technology and the Web, as they exist today, have obviously many relationships. However, the opinions about these relationships vary widely and accordingly database technology plays many roles in the World Wide Web (WWW). The spectrum ranges from viewing the Web as one huge database for which data management problems need to be tackled to considering the WWW just as a platform for database system interoperability and access. In this panel we try to explore highly probable scenarios for the role of database technology in the WWW.