This one is for you Damien, because I know just how much you love ObjectStore, from Yahoo poster:
What's wrong with OStore $$$? <g>
by: true_that_2000 [ Ignore ] 4/18/00 4:34 pm
Msg: 9164 of 9189 OStore is EXLN's secret weapon. I am a developer. ODB rules. After people taste XML (call it OO, call it "structured", whatever) they will not be able to tolerate RDB.
Example: I have done RDB. Saw the power of the simple relational model. Fine. Then I worked for about three years very intensely in OO, no permanent store required, so no DB issues.
Then I got handed top spot on a big development project and told MS SQL was the DB. Fine. Started the schema design, and immediately puked on its expressive weakness compared to OO. Soldiered on a while until I decided we could not use VB, had to go with an OO language, who, bingo, happened to provide an ODB wrapper around OStore. Project is going great, and my skin crawls at the thought of even trying to do it in RDB.
The point is, my OO preference blew SQL and any RDB out of the water. As people get hooked on XML for storage, watch out, they probably won't use it for everything, they'll go with a true ODB...hello OStore with 40% of the market.
I just hope EXLN provides a nice crumb trail from Excelon to OStore to make it easy for buyers of the former to end up with the latter as well.
Money is money, and ODB revenues will start growing again, it's just that EXLN is sacrificing that area to give Excelon the big push. Good move, and Excelon sale is probably a long way towards an OStore sale. And down the road looks like they'll have the bucks to ramp up OStore marketing just as folks are getting hooked on XML and losing interest in the relational model.
Mind you, don't expect EXLN to say this, they just went to a lot of trouble to convince the street they are a B2B play, not an ODB play. :) |
