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From: marti@mint.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented COBOL?
Keywords: object-oriented, business applications
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Date: 6 Nov 90 17:23:32 GMT
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In article <0B010001.xkabkz@bse.com> eberard@bse.com writes in response
to article <694@ghp.UUCP> by Tom Huras:

[...]

>>  A relational database will be used.

>Good luck, and welcome to the object-oriented vs. relational DBMS wars.
>While a relational DBMS can be used with an object-oriented software
>development effort, you will have to:
>	a. write some additional software to interface with the relational
>	   DBMS,
>	b. very likely corrupt your design to accommodate the
>	   relational DBMS

This sounds like a shot from the hip.

Do you have any evidence to substantiate your second claim?

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