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From: ballou@databs.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Databases
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.140554@databs.enet.dec.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:08:32 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

Another vendor:   Objectivity, Inc.
                             800 El Camino Real
                             Menlo Park, CA  94025
                             (415) 688-8000

Nat