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From: bridon@bdblues.altair.fr (Philippe Bridon)
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Subject: Re: OODBMS contacts
Keywords: object-oriented database commercial systems
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Date: 28 Aug 90 08:33:58 GMT
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>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).


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| 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             |
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