Re: How are OO databases doing
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:34:05 -0500
Message-ID: <87fymkwh5e.fsf_at_wolfe.cbbrowne.com>
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_novoa_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Arturo,
>
>>OO langages. And for developers like me it is still a pain not to have
>>an integrated technology. So why the disconect?
>
> The solution is to leverage application development languages to
> support relational features, and not to return to primitive data models
> that match better with current OO languages.
>
> M$ is doing the first thing (although rather clumsily IMO) with LINQ
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/
That's something that pretty well any self-respecting scripting language supports quite nicely these days.
Frankly, what they have doesn't hold a candle to what Waters put into the SERIES package <http://series.sourceforge.net/> back in the late 1980s. I'd be somewhat impressed if they had something like THAT...
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