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From: heinz@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Alois Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Databases
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.160405.4322@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:04:05 GMT
References: <1149@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <1991Jan15.140554@databs.enet.dec.com>
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ballou@databs.enet.dec.com writes:

>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

You may also try to get the O2 object oriented database system from Altair.

The address: Sophie Gamerman
             GIP Altair
             Domaine de Voluceau
             BP 105 Rocquencourt
             78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
             FRANCE