Hi there

The advent of OO databases has been a bit of a shammozel really, and to some degree the main architects (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle) have been guilty of not persuing the technoligies heavily enough. I have a OO DBMS book written some 8 years ago with very thorough mathmatical models and associated structures, so the thinking is certainly mature, but the process of interconnecting existing systems, providers, (the query engines - aka the human) is a different story that has struggled somewhat.

I wouldnt mind some articles on CACHE (OO DB supposedly), and others around. The life of OO and of course the movement into real "intelligence" in databases themselves and perhaps AI, is really dependent on an underling Hardware revolution; that (somehow) supports all the existing human and machine interactions we have grown up with.

Thanks for the article btw - ive probably gone off track myself 🙂

Cheers

Ck

Chris Kempster

http://www.chriskempster.com

Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"