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From: davidm@cimshop.UUCP (David Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: OO DBMSs (was Re: Extended RDB vs OODB)
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Date: 22 Aug 89 17:45:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: jack@odi.com's message of 21 Aug 89 13:25:25 GMT

>Unfortunately, the details of how "swizzling" works are proprietary,
>so I can't discuss the issue.
>
Let me just ask then, is there anything inherit in your design that prevents
it from being put on top of a relational database system (you've expressed
requirements that prevent it [performance], but not design constraints)?  This
question has some implications in what I am currently doing.

David Masterson
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