Xref: utzoo comp.object:1735 comp.databases:7030 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!moria!brian From: B.J.King@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian King) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.databases Subject: OODBMS contacts (SUMMARY of replies) Summary: Summary of replies to previous OODBMS contact query Keywords: object database products commercial Message-ID: <1990Sep4.143606.924@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 4 Sep 90 14:36:06 GMT Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK. Lines: 228 Recently I asked: 1. Does anyone have a full list of OODBMS currently available? 2. ,, ,, ,, contact addresses, e-mail(!) preferably Europe? 3. Are there any comparitive reports on commercial systems? 4. What are peoples experience with object database systems? Questions 3 and 4 were not addresses in any replies I received. A summary of questions 1 and 2 is given below. (This is a fleshed out version of a full reply received from Dan Benson ((benson@ee.washington. edu)) , thanks Dan). I do not guarantee the accuracy of these replies, I am only summarising. Regards Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U M M A R Y O F R E P L I E S < stuff deleted > ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: GemStone Company:Servio-Logic Development Corporation 15220 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 100 Beaverton, OR 97006 Phone: (503) 629-8383 FAX: (503) 629-8556 Company:Servio Corporation 1420 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 100 Alameda, CA 94501 USA Contact:Annamarie Ahmed Tel: 415-748-6200) Company:Servio Europe Plc (European Contact) Richard J Cahill, International Marketing, Park Mount, Newtownpark Ave., Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland Phone: +353 1 893346 Fax: +353 1 897002 Notes: (From marcs%SLC.COM%servio@uunet.uu.net Mon Aug 20 23:40:18 1990) From our company's recent press release: Servio Corporation, formerly Servio Logic Development Corporation, was incorporated in 1982 with the mission to develop advanced computer database systems. Originally a high-tech research and development organization, the company changed its focus to the commercial marketplace in 1986 and introduced GemStone, the market's first object database system, in 1987. The company is committed to supporting standards. Servio executives are members of the X3/SPARC Database Systems Study Group Task Group on Object Oriented Databases and the Advisory Board of the Object Management Group (OMG) Educational Division. Servio is also acting chair of the Object Management Group (OMG) Special Interest Group on databases, and is a member of the Open Software Foundation (OSF). The company is headquartered in Alameda, California, and has over 70 employess. Servio offers comprehensive sales, service, and support to customers through offices in Beaverton OR, Boston, Washington D.C., and Alameda CA. Servio Corporation 1420 Harbor Bay Parkway Suite 100 Alameda, California 94501 Phone: 415-748-6200 Fax: 415-748-6227 Email: 'richter!naomi' (Naomi Nielson) ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: VERSANT Company:Versant Object Technology (formerly OBJECT-Sciences) 4700 Bohannon Drive, Suite 125 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 325-2300 FAX: (415) 325-2380 Misc: Michael Seachols - President John Hughes - VP sales (jhughes) Dr. Mary Loomis - VP Tech Services (mloomis) Dr. Kee Ong - VP R&D Dr. C.P. Chou - Eng'g Prod Mgr Dr. Hong-Tai Chou - system architect Barbara Shelhoss - VP marketing Susan Dickerson - VP sales for Sun H. Stephen Au-Yeung Joe Keane (jgk) John Cribbs - tech support Email: @osc.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: G-Base Company:Object Databases (Division of Numatec, Inc.) 238 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 354-4220 Fax: (617) 547-5420 Email: @odb.com Misc: Bill Frank - VP sales Notes: (From gael%odb.com%hawaii@uunet.uu.net Sat Aug 25 04:38:27 1990) Object Databases is a subsidiary of Graphael/Soretas: Graphael/Soretas Avenue de Landshut 60200 Compiegne France Tel: 44 86 03 30 Fax: 44 86 02 26 You will be able to get the informations you need in any of these companies... ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: ONTOS Company: Ontologic Inc. Three Burlington Woods Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: (617) 272-7110 FAX: (617) 272-8101 Misc: Tim Andrews - chief architect (andrews) Jeff Magill - VP sales Josh Duhl - engineering & product manager (duhl) Company: Ontologic Inc. 76 Lippard Ave SF, CA 94131 Phone: (415) 469-8494 Fax: (415) 469-8083 Misc Adrian Blakey - tech support Email: uunet!ontologic! ------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ObjectStore Company:Object Design, Inc One New England Executive Park Burlington MA 01803 Phone: (617) 270-9797 Fax: (617) 270-3509 Misc: Thomas Atwood - founder and chairman Eugene Bonte - VP marketing (gene) David Stryker - VP Eng'g Dan Weinreb - Lead S/w architect (dlw) Jack Orenstein - Tech Staff Gordon Landis - Tech Staff Bob Walmsley - Tech Staff (bobw) Company:Object Design, Inc 6033 West Century Blvd #400 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Phone: (213) 412-8411 Fax: (213) 412-8686 Misc: Marc Crawford - Western Region Sales Manager Advisory Board: Dr. Stanley Zdonik Dr. David Maier Dr. Michael Carey Email: @odi.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Objectivity/DB Company:Objectivity, Inc. 800 El Camino Real, 4th floor Menlo Park CA 940025 Phone: (415) 688-8000 FAX: (415) 325-0939 Misc: Bob Field - President Larry Lai - Eng'g Mgr Drew Wade - VP Eng'g (drew) Email: @objy.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Altair/O2 Company: Altair - Third Coast Software, Inc. 8716 N. Mopac, Suite 200 Austin, Texas 78759 Phone: (512) 794-9994 Fax: (512) 794-9997 Email: Haran Boral-President TCS (boral@cs.utexas.edu) Company: Altair B.P. 105, Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chenay Cedex France Tel: +33 (1) 39 63 54 17 Fax: +33 (1) 39 63 58 90 E-mail: altair@bdblues.altair.fr Contact: Sopie Gamerman (sophie@bdblues.altair.fr) Notes: (From mark@motown.altair.fr Wed Aug 22 21:03:23 1990) If you're interested in prototypes as well as currently-marketed OODBMSes, especially in Europe, count us in. Our system, O2, will go into final beta testing in November and onto the market in early 1991. Apart from an object-oriented DBMS, O2 contains a graphical user interface based on Motif, an object-oriented query language, and its own graphics-based programming environment. ------------------------------------------------------------- Product: Statice Company: Symbolics Inc. 8 New England Executive Park, East Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: ? Fax: ? Email: ? Notes: From lgm%com.att.cbnewsc@att-in.att.com Wed Aug 22 02:08:19 1990 Symbolics Inc. sells Statice, a true industrial-strength OODB with persistence and multiple-processor sharing. Statice is smoothly integrated into the Symbolics Common Lisp language and environment. ------------------------------------------------------------- Brian J. King | Voice: +44 91 222 7241 Fax: +44 91 261 1182 Dept. of Chemical Engineering | JANET: B.J.King@uk.ac.ncl Newcastle University | UUCP : B.J.King%newcastle.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Tyne and Wear NE1 7RU UK | Internet: B.J.King%newcastle.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu -- Brian J. King | Voice: +44 91 222 7241 Fax: +44 91 261 1182 Dept. of Chemical Engineering | JANET: B.J.King@uk.ac.ncl Newcastle University | UUCP : B.J.King%newcastle.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Tyne and Wear NE1 7RU UK | Internet: B.J.King%newcastle.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu