A post at O’Reilly Network is not trying to predict what technologies will make the year 2004. But the autor writes about its next interests, that is affordable modesty.

Second point is XQuery, which is presented at xquery.com as a language to query collections of XML. * it is a W3C development * it has broad support (IBM, BEA, Oracle, Software AG and Microsoft) * All kind of collections may be queried (relational databases included)

See Online: X is for XQuery (Oracle tutorial).