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From: mamou@bdblues.altair.fr (Jean Claude Mamou)
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Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Databases
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:48:20 GMT
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In article <1149@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, srm@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr.S.R.Monk) writes:
|> The Department is looking into buying an OODB to use in a number of projects.
|> We have so far only looked at Ontos. It would be nice to see some of the
|> other systems that are arround, but we have had difficulty in tracking down
|> vendors. We have heard that Orion is being marketted by a subsidiary of CDC.
|> Does anyone have the address of these people, or contacts for any other
|> OODB systems. If they do they would be gratefully received.
|> 
|> In return, I am happy to furnish any one who contacts me with my personal
|> and probably ill informed impressions of Ontos, under the strict understanding
|> that I have not had much to compare it with.
|> 
|> Simon Monk


(Sorry for the previous message)


O2, an Object Oriented database System is currently being solded by Altair.

O2 consists of the following features:

o  A full multi-user database management system, including transaction
   management, concurrency control, fault recovery and a query
   language.

o  An object-oriented system, with the ability to define
   object classes with simple or multiple inheritance, late binding of
   method names, complex objects, multimedia objects, and object
   persistence (handled in a manner transparent to the programmer).

o  Support for the ANSI-standard C programming language with
   extensions to handle the O2 data types.

o  A graphic user interface called O2Look, based on the Motif
   standard, to provide a friendly and productive environment for both
   the end user and the programmer.

o  A complete programming environment named O2Tools, including
   a database and schema browser/editor, an application manager, an
   object-oriented debugger, journaling facilities, and a graphic
   interface to the query language.  There is also a toolkit of
   predefined classes and objects which the programmer may use (or
   redefine) to facilitate and standardize data capture tasks.

o  A capability to use O2 from programming languages. The first target 
   languages  are C and C++, after these we think of Fortran and ADA.

o  It works on Sun3, Sun4 and HP 9000.

For further information, please contact Sophie Gamerman, Applications
and Support Manager, in any of the following ways:

By mail:                        By phone:
Altair                          +33 (1) 39 63 54 17
Domaine de Voluceau, B P 105
78153 Le Chenay Cedex           By fax:
France                          +33 (1) 39 63 58 90

By E-Mail:
sophie@bdblues.altair.fr