john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol) (06/15/89)
There seems to be growing interest in Object Oriented Database (OODB) research. I for one would love to know more about who is working on OODBs and what (near) commercially available OODBs exist. Has anyone conducted a survey of OODBs (including for example Iris, Galileo, Gemstone, Vbase, Encore...)? If so, I'd be very grateful to learn of such work -- particularly if it addresses the various data modelling approaches used by the designers and what feature(s) are novel etc. Has anyone tackled an OODB design which takes distribution into account? Naturally, I would be happy to summarise any information I receive for the benefit of other readers of this group. Regards, -- John -- JANET: john@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!john | Department of Computing, ARPA: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Bailrigg, VOICE: +44 524 65201 Ext. 3818 | Lancaster, LA1 4YR FAX: +44 524 381707 | UNITED KINGDOM