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Technology Stocks : OBJECT DESIGN Inc.: Bargain of the year!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hasbeen101 who wrote (2674)	1/9/1999 5:10:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

Decisive indeed! Nice to see that ODIS's 98Q4 results are excelon... Oops! make that excellent! Back to the fundamentals: January 07, 1999, Issue: 2801 Section: Hot Products -- Network Software Web Software -- Energizing E-Commerce -- Object Design's one-of-a-kind XML data server stores Web documents for easy search and retrieval Lee Bruno What's the hottest thing since HTML? XML-and Object Design is harnessing the heat with its eXcelon server software. It's the first XML server built on an object-oriented database that can convert data into XML and store, cache, and deliver it across the network. On top of that, built-in caching software ensures the data is delivered in a hurry, regardless of server location. Now the explanation behind the XML excitement. Unlike HTML (hypertext markup language), XML (extensible markup language) furnishes a standard method of formatting, describing, and searching both text and numerical data. This makes it easy for an in-house, custom-designed app to cull specific data from a file (such as a phone number or address) and process it (say, by dialing the number or storing the address). HTML, in contrast, is limited to publishing documents and doesn't have built-in searching features. That makes XML a perfect fit for e-commerce, and eXcelon may be the easiest infrastructure software for building and integrating next-generation Web business apps. It sits behind the corporate firewall and runs on Windows NT server from Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.), where it goes about its business of culling, converting, caching, storing, or delivering data. And its object-based architecture helps give it the advantage over such products as XML Toolkit from Oracle Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.) and Poet Document Management Framework from Poet Software Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.), which rely on relational databases. In an object database, data is stored hierarchically --and that means it can be retrieved much more quickly than is possible with relational databases, which use a column-and-row structure. The object database also allows net managers to modify apps without extensive coding. What's more, a patented cache-forwarding technology distributes XML data to client stations, which improves overall response time and reduces network traffic loads. "Data integration across the enterprise is very painful, and eXcelon is a good tool set for doing it," sums up Bill Gougler, managing director for Thoughtworks Inc. (Chicago), an integrator and consulting firm that works with object technologies and has beta-tested the Object Design product. Object Design (Burlington, Mass.) hasn't set pricing for eXcelon, but when it ships this quarter it should cost about $15,000. Corporate networkers may want to use extra care, however: XML itself is relatively new and only now being embraced. Object Design; 781-674-5300, www.objectdesign.com Circle No. 367 Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc.