Re: Sedona is Dead - What options for Oracle8 Objects?

Mal Heseltine wrote:

> Why did Oracle officially kill off the Sedona project forever? It
> would
> seem they will lose a huge amount of credibility over this. Especially
>
> with all the hype of the object-relational Oracle8 DB.
>
> What options are available now (besides a hell of a lot of C
> programming) for developing object-oriented apps utilising oracle8?
>
> Are Oracle serious about furthering object extensions to the DB if
> they
> can't be bothered providing a development environment to utilise them?
>
> Has it all become too hard for Oracle? They surely can't be serious
> about their excuse for dropping Sedona in that it would compete
> against
> Developer 2000. I would of thought it would be a golden opportunity to
>
> get even more market share. I don't expect Developer 2000 will provide
> a
> platform for developing scalable 3-tier C/S apps in the near future so
> I
> just don't understand their decision. Are they banking everything on
> NCA? - geez, I hope not!
>
> Seems to me they're going to let the market decide if there's any
> future
> in the object-relational model by waiting to see what take up there is
>
> by customers of third-party products utilising oracle8 objects. They
> could well write-off the object extensions as a failed experiment
> sometime down the track. Lets face it, it would be several releases
> (8.3?) before the object extensions actually become useful for any
> real
> object-oriented development as there are some important features
> missing
> such as inheritance.
>
> Unless you have some dramatically big VLDB's or performance issues
> with
> your DB, I can't imagine why anyone would be in a hurry to go to
> Oracle8.

   Matt,

Where did you get this information? Who said Sedona is dead. Can anybody tell me if they have the same information as Matt?

Chris. Received on Tue Aug 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST