Re: Mixing OO and DB
From: paul c <toledobysea_at_ac.ooyah>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:49:08 GMT
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Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:49:08 GMT
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David Cressey wrote:
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> Given that so many people want an OODBMS, why has one not been built?
> I think it's because the term OODBMS contains a contradiction in terms. But
> I'm open to other opinions.
It's a relatively few programmers or wannabes who imagine they "want" an "oodbms". In practice many, many users are hampered by the lack of user-defined types in rdbms' but usually don't know it. I'd say that is the central problem TTM is aimed at.
Most people are lost in the forest (recently the TTM site started to required javascript in order to view the pdf's, a small example of the same problem - unbeknownst to the authors I'm sure). Received on Sat Mar 08 2008 - 09:49:08 CST