Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dgis!jkrueger
From: jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Extended RDB vs OODB
Message-ID: <32@dgis.daitc.mil>
Date: 17 Aug 89 21:17:53 GMT
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dcmartin@lisp.eng.sun.com (David C. Martin) writes:

>I think that the position of most OODBMS vendors is to provide this
>type of extended functionality in the DBMS, not necessarily in frontend
>support systems.

This is also precisely the goal of those adding OO capabilities to
relational engines.  However, they start by assuming the engine must
provide shared access to persistent data.

-- Jon
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Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
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