ODBMS Industry Watch

Marten Mickos is now the head of the Database Group at Sun MicrosystemsI have asked Marten a few questions related to the new strategy of MySQL, now part of Sun Microsystems.See his reply below.RVZ Q1. It appears as if the positioning of MySQL has

I wanted to have an opinion on some critical questions related to Object Databases: Where are Object Database Systems going? Are Relational database systems becoming Object Databases? Do we need a standard for Object Databases? Why ODMG did not succe

More on the topic of Java Object Persistence ...I have this time interviewed the following ODBMS.ORG experts Jose Blakeley (Microsoft), Rick Cattell (Sun Microsystems), William Cook (University of Texas at Austin), Robert Green (Versant) , and A

I was invited to speak at ICOODB- the International Conference on Object Databases.The conference took place on 13 and 14 of March in Berlin. I was there only on the 13.I have to admit that I was surprised. It was very long time since I attended an

The topic of Java Object Persistence is as actual as ever...I have therefore interviewed together with InfoQ.com's Floyd Marinescu the following group of leading persistence solution architects on their views on the current State of the Union of obje

On Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and President, Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced in his blog that SUN is acquiring MySQL AB.On 26 February 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of

I have been working together with Floyd Marinescu, editor of InfoQ.com, and produced a virtual panel asking a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.The Pane

I have received some information from Mrs. Charlotte W. Wales (The MITRE Corporation) related to the OMG Object Database Technology Users and Vendors Roundtable, which took place on 11 December 2007 at the OMG meeting in Burlingame, CA. I have liste

A tragedy occured to Michael Blaha`s family,Michael is a database colleague and contributor to ODBMS.ORG.I??d thought to share this with the community.Roberto V. ZicariBrian Blaha, the son of Michael Blaha, died on July 10, 2007 after a long and bra

Happy New Year!One of the main driving force which influenced the introduction of new generation database systems, such as ODBMS, was Object Oriented Programming (OOP). For OOP a number of OO methodologies have been introduced. I had the pleasure to