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From: isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: The Price of Object Oriented Database Systems for Education
Message-ID: <4798@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 20 Feb 91 01:49:31 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Has anyone else experienced this:

We have expanded our Masters by Coursework program by including
a  year long unit on OODBMS. We were banking (sic) on using a real live
one to give the students some hands-on experience.
The two that have come to light as being worthwhile (there may be others,
so this isn't gospel) are Ontos and Gemstone.

Sadly, neither of these companies has any concept of the VERY SMALL
amounts of money available to University departments.
We were quoted large amounts of money which became even larger when
we said that 10-15 students (heaven forbid) would be using it.

Do these companies have no vision?
Can't they realise that the more people who use their tools and 
go out into the workforce the better off they will be.

I am appalled.

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