B.J.King@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian King) (08/20/90)
This is probably a frequently asked question, .. Can anyone supply a list of contact addresses for companies selling object -oriented databases. I have Ontologic's Vbase(Ontos) information but I would like to get hold of information on Object Databases (I think they are in Cambridge Mass.) , Objectivity (? Calif.) and any other vendors. Questions :- 1. Does anyone have a full list of OODBMS currently available? 2. ,, ,,, ,, contact address, e-mail(!) preferable Europe ? 3. Are there any comparitive reports on commercial systems? 4. What are peoples experience with object database systems? If there is enough interest, I will summarise to the group. Brian -- **************************************************************************** Brian King B.J.King@newcastle.ac.uk
benson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dan Benson) (08/25/90)
In article <1990Aug20.140628.10304@newcastle.ac.uk> B.J.King@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian King) writes: >This is probably a frequently asked question, .. >Can anyone supply a list of contact addresses for companies >selling object -oriented databases. I have Ontologic's Vbase(Ontos) < stuff deleted > Here is a list of commercial OODBMSs that I'm aware of. If anyone has any more please pass them on. ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: GemStone Company:Servio-Logic Development Corporation 15220 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 100 Beaverton, OR 97006 Phone: (503) 629-8383 FAX: (503) 629-8556 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: VERSANT Company:Versant Object Technology (formerly OBJECT-Sciences) 4700 Bohannon Drive, Suite 125 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 325-2300 FAX: (415) 325-2380 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: G-Base Company:Object Databases (Division of Numatec, Inc.) 238 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 354-4220 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ONTOS Company: Ontologic Inc. Three Burlington Woods Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: (617) 272-7110 FAX: (617) 272-8101 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ITASCA (based on MCC's ORION technology) Company:Itasca Systems Inc. 2850 Metro Drive, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55425 Phone: (612) 851-3155 FAX: (612) 851-3157 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ObjectStore Company:Object-Design ? Phone: (617) 270-9797 (Eastern USA) or (213) 412-8411 (Los Angeles) FAX: ? ------------------------------------------------------------- -- | Dan Benson benson@ee.washington.edu | | Dept. of Elec. Engr., FT-10 | | University of Washington (206) 685-7567 | | Seattle, WA 98195 |
lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka) (08/27/90)
In article <6705@milton.u.washington.edu> benson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dan Benson) writes: >Here is a list of commercial OODBMSs that I'm aware of. If anyone has >any more please pass them on. You forgot the one which, as of the last OOPSLA (October 1989), was the *only* commercial OODB running in a commercial application: Statice, sold by Symbolics, Inc. 8 New England Executive Park, East Burlington, MA 01803 Lawrence G. Mayka AT&T Bell Laboratories lgm@iexist.att.com Standard disclaimer.
bridon@bdblues.altair.fr (Philippe Bridon) (08/28/90)
>any more please pass them on. Please, add my company to this list of OODBMS vendors. ALTAIR BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, FRANCE Tel: +33.1 39.63.54.17 -- Fax : +33.1 39.63.58.90 e-mail: altair@bdblues.altair.fr Contact : Sophie Gamerman (e-mail: sophie@bdblues.altair.fr) If you need further informations, please feel free to contact me (email, mail or fax). We have several documentations on our company and product, and copies of technical reports. We have also published in conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD, ...) and you can find in IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol2, Num1, March 1990, the article: "The Story of O2", which is a complete description of our works. If you live far from France, we have perhaps a site near you where you can see our prototype (several in US, and also Canada, Japan, Europe). We will exhibit in OOPSLA/ECOOP'90 (October, Ottawa, Canada). It can be a good opportunity to see the prototype (and perhaps the alpha-test) and talk with us. Philippe BRIDON and here are some informations about us: The objective of Altair is to build a new generation database system named O2. The functionalities of the system include that of a database management system (DBMS), of a programming language, and of a programming environment. O2 is an object-oriented DBMS. As a database system it provides support for accessing and updating large amounts of persistent, reliable, and shared data. As an object-oriented system, it supports features such as complex objects with identity, inheritance, encapsulation, overriding, and late binding of methods to objects. To make the design of applications easier, the integrated programming environment offers tools to design a graphical user interface, to debug applications and to query both data and schema. It also includes a toolbox containing useful ``software components'' to design usual applications. The commercialization of the product will start on the second trimester of 1991, the beta-tests having started end of 1990. A prototype was already available in september 1989 and has been used by 12 companies. It is also being used for teaching and research purposes in about 50 universities all over the world. PS: Francois Bancilhon, Director of Altair, is one of the authors of the "OODBMS Manifesto" (Conference DOOD'89). (Forget the header, I have some trouble with the news follow-up system, Just read my signature !) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Philippe BRIDON | Email : bridon@bdblues.altair.fr | | ALTAIR | or : ...!mcvax!inria!bdblues!bridon | | BP105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex | Phone : +33 (1) 39.63.54.42 | | FRANCE | Fax : +33 (1) 39.63.58.90 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
haim@taichi.uucp (24122-Haim Kilov(3786)m000) (08/31/90)
ANSI SPARC (Standards Planning and Requirements Committee) has established
an Object-Oriented Database Task Group. Among its activities are:
-- to define a common reference model for object databases,
-- to assess whether and where standardization of OODB systems is possible and
useful,
-- to complete a Final Report containing, among other topics, a comparison
of existing OODBMSs.
People interested in OODBTG are invited to contact Elizabeth Fong at
National Institute of Science and Technology, Tech.Bldg. A266, Gaithersburg,
MD 20899.
OODBTG is organizing a (2nd) workshop on standardization of object
database systems to be held in Ottawa, Canada, October 23, 1990
(the third day of OOPSLA conference). For participation please contact
Allan Otis at Servio, (503)629-8383.
Currently, the draft object data management reference model is available.
It will be further discussed at the workshop.
Hope this helps.
-Haim Kilov
haim@bcr.cc.bellcore.comB.J.King@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian King) (09/04/90)
Recently I asked:
1. Does anyone have a full list of OODBMS currently available?
2. ,, ,, ,, contact addresses, e-mail(!) preferably Europe?
3. Are there any comparitive reports on commercial systems?
4. What are peoples experience with object database systems?
Questions 3 and 4 were not addresses in any replies I received.
A summary of questions 1 and 2 is given below. (This is a fleshed
out version of a full reply received from Dan Benson ((benson@ee.washington.
edu)) , thanks Dan). I do not guarantee the accuracy of these replies, I
am only summarising.
Regards
Brian
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Product: GemStone
Company:Servio-Logic Development Corporation
15220 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 100
Beaverton, OR 97006
Phone: (503) 629-8383
FAX: (503) 629-8556
Company:Servio Corporation
1420 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 100
Alameda, CA 94501 USA
Contact:Annamarie Ahmed
Tel: 415-748-6200)
Company:Servio Europe Plc (European Contact)
Richard J Cahill, International Marketing,
Park Mount, Newtownpark Ave., Blackrock,
Dublin, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 893346
Fax: +353 1 897002
Notes:
(From marcs%SLC.COM%servio@uunet.uu.net Mon Aug 20 23:40:18 1990)
From our company's recent press release:
Servio Corporation, formerly Servio Logic Development Corporation, was
incorporated in 1982 with the mission to develop advanced computer
database systems. Originally a high-tech research and development
organization, the company changed its focus to the commercial
marketplace in 1986 and introduced GemStone, the market's first object
database system, in 1987. The company is committed to supporting
standards. Servio executives are members of the X3/SPARC Database
Systems Study Group Task Group on Object Oriented Databases and the
Advisory Board of the Object Management Group (OMG) Educational
Division. Servio is also acting chair of the Object Management Group
(OMG) Special Interest Group on databases, and is a member of the Open
Software Foundation (OSF). The company is headquartered in Alameda,
California, and has over 70 employess. Servio offers comprehensive
sales, service, and support to customers through offices in Beaverton OR,
Boston, Washington D.C., and Alameda CA.
Servio Corporation
1420 Harbor Bay Parkway
Suite 100
Alameda, California 94501
Phone: 415-748-6200
Fax: 415-748-6227
Email: 'richter!naomi' (Naomi Nielson)
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Product: VERSANT
Company:Versant Object Technology (formerly OBJECT-Sciences)
4700 Bohannon Drive, Suite 125
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: (415) 325-2300
FAX: (415) 325-2380
Misc: Michael Seachols - President
John Hughes - VP sales (jhughes)
Dr. Mary Loomis - VP Tech Services (mloomis)
Dr. Kee Ong - VP R&D
Dr. C.P. Chou - Eng'g Prod Mgr
Dr. Hong-Tai Chou - system architect
Barbara Shelhoss - VP marketing
Susan Dickerson - VP sales for Sun
H. Stephen Au-Yeung
Joe Keane (jgk)
John Cribbs - tech support
Email: @osc.com
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Product: G-Base
Company:Object Databases (Division of Numatec, Inc.)
238 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 354-4220
Fax: (617) 547-5420
Email: <user>@odb.com
Misc: Bill Frank - VP sales
Notes:
(From gael%odb.com%hawaii@uunet.uu.net Sat Aug 25 04:38:27 1990)
Object Databases is a subsidiary of Graphael/Soretas:
Graphael/Soretas
Avenue de Landshut
60200 Compiegne
France
Tel: 44 86 03 30
Fax: 44 86 02 26
You will be able to get the informations you need in any of these
companies...
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Product: ONTOS
Company: Ontologic Inc.
Three Burlington Woods
Burlington, MA 01803
Phone: (617) 272-7110
FAX: (617) 272-8101
Misc: Tim Andrews - chief architect (andrews)
Jeff Magill - VP sales
Josh Duhl - engineering & product manager (duhl)
Company: Ontologic Inc.
76 Lippard Ave
SF, CA 94131
Phone: (415) 469-8494
Fax: (415) 469-8083
Misc Adrian Blakey - tech support
Email: uunet!ontologic!<user>
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Product: ITASCA (based on MCC's ORION technology)
Company:Itasca Systems Inc.
2850 Metro Drive, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55425
Phone: (612) 851-3155
FAX: (612) 851-3157
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Product: ObjectStore
Company:Object Design, Inc
One New England Executive Park
Burlington
MA 01803
Phone: (617) 270-9797
Fax: (617) 270-3509
Misc: Thomas Atwood - founder and chairman
Eugene Bonte - VP marketing (gene)
David Stryker - VP Eng'g
Dan Weinreb - Lead S/w architect (dlw)
Jack Orenstein - Tech Staff
Gordon Landis - Tech Staff
Bob Walmsley - Tech Staff (bobw)
Company:Object Design, Inc
6033 West Century Blvd #400
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone: (213) 412-8411
Fax: (213) 412-8686
Misc: Marc Crawford - Western Region Sales Manager
Advisory Board: Dr. Stanley Zdonik
Dr. David Maier
Dr. Michael Carey
Email: @odi.com
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Product: Objectivity/DB
Company:Objectivity, Inc.
800 El Camino Real, 4th floor
Menlo Park
CA 940025
Phone: (415) 688-8000
FAX: (415) 325-0939
Misc: Bob Field - President
Larry Lai - Eng'g Mgr
Drew Wade - VP Eng'g (drew)
Email: <user>@objy.com
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Product: Altair/O2
Company: Altair - Third Coast Software, Inc.
8716 N. Mopac, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78759
Phone: (512) 794-9994
Fax: (512) 794-9997
Email: Haran Boral-President TCS (boral@cs.utexas.edu)
Company: Altair
B.P. 105, Rocquencourt
78153 Le Chenay Cedex
France
Tel: +33 (1) 39 63 54 17
Fax: +33 (1) 39 63 58 90
E-mail: altair@bdblues.altair.fr
Contact: Sopie Gamerman (sophie@bdblues.altair.fr)
Notes:
(From mark@motown.altair.fr Wed Aug 22 21:03:23 1990)
If you're interested in prototypes as well as currently-marketed
OODBMSes, especially in Europe, count us in. Our system, O2, will go
into final beta testing in November and onto the market in early 1991.
Apart from an object-oriented DBMS, O2 contains a graphical user
interface based on Motif, an object-oriented query language, and its
own graphics-based programming environment.
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Product: Statice
Company: Symbolics Inc.
8 New England Executive Park,
East Burlington, MA 01803
Phone: ?
Fax: ?
Email: ?
Notes:
From lgm%com.att.cbnewsc@att-in.att.com Wed Aug 22 02:08:19 1990
Symbolics Inc. sells Statice, a true industrial-strength OODB with
persistence and multiple-processor sharing. Statice is smoothly
integrated into the Symbolics Common Lisp language and environment.
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