benson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dan Benson) (08/30/90)
Many thanks for those who sent me additional references for commercial OODBs. I have included them in the list and have added some of the descriptive information that was sent along. Once again, if anyone has more to add to the list please pass it along. It would be nice to add more information about each product such as platforms supported, languages, system requirements, and other features. Perhaps if any of these companies are reading this article they can respond with more data :). Commercially available OODBMSs as of August 1990 (in alphabetical order by product name): ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: DOME (Distributed Object Management Environment) Company: Dome Software Corporation 655 West Carmel Drive, Suite 151 Carmel, IN 46032 Phone: (317) 573-8100 INFORMATION: DOME is an inherently distributed system of several Mac workstations, at least one DEC VAX and instruments or other electronically controllable devices such as CAM. The VAX runs a database resource that is an OO encapsulation of ORACLE under VMS. The Macs run either the standard DOME Navigator (a generic browser) or application specific GUIs based on HyperDOME (HyperCard with DOME messaging extensions). ------------------------------------------------------------- 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: G-Base Company:Object Databases (Division of Numatec, Inc.) 238 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 354-4220 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ONTOS Company: Ontologic Inc. Three Burlington Woods Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: (617) 272-7110 FAX: (617) 272-8101 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: O2 Company: ALTAIR BP 105, Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, FRANCE Phone: +33 (1) 39 63 54 17 FAX: +33 (1) 39 63 58 90 E-mail: altair@bdblues.altair.fr INFORMATION: We are designing O2, an OODBMS with its complete graphical development environment. We have a prototype since sept 89 which is used by ~10 french companies and ~30 universities and research centers all over the world. (Ask us, there is perhaps a site near you if you want to see it) Beta-test of the product are scheduled for Nov 90, and product for 1st semester 91. We will exhibit at OOPSLA in October (Ottawa, Canada). It can be a good opportunity to meet us. Anyway, if you need further information, feel free to mail/fax me. We have several papers describing our company and project, and also technical reports. We have also published in conferences like VLDB, SIGMOD, .... Francois Bancilhon, ALTAIR's Director, is also one of the authors of the "OODBMS Manifesto" published in DOOD'89. And, if you are very, very interested in this product, you can contact also : Ms Sophie Gamerman, sales and applications manager tel: +33.1 39.63.54.47 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ObjectStore Company: Object Design, Inc. 1 New England Executive Park Burlington MA, 01803 Phone: (617) 270-3509 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Statice Company: Symbolics, Inc. 8 New England Executive Park, East Burlington MA, 01803 Phone: (617) 270-3509 ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: VERSANT Company:Versant Object Technology (formerly OBJECT-Sciences) 4500 Bohannon Drive, Suite 200 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 325-2300 FAX: (415) 325-2380 ------------------------------------------------------------- -- | Dan Benson benson@ee.washington.edu | | Dept. of Elec. Engr., FT-10 | | University of Washington (206) 685-7567 | | Seattle, WA 98195 |