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

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2826)	4/1/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

OBJECT DESIGN, INC. DIRECTOR FILES SEC FORM 4 WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 31, 1999 (States via COMTEX) -- Arthur J. Marks of Baltimore, MD, a Director of Object Design, Inc. (SYMBOL: ODS), accumulated 77,500 shares in 3 transactions for $6.25 each between December 03, 1998 and December 07, 1998. Arthur J. Marks currently owns 547,881 shares. A Form 4 reporting the transaction was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 1999. OBJECT DESIGN, INC. SHAREHOLDER FILES SEC FORM 4 WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 31, 1999 (States via COMTEX) -- NEA Partners VIII of Baltimore, MD, a Shareholder of Object Design, Inc. (SYMBOL: ODS), accumulated 77,500 shares in 3 transactions for $6.25 each between December 03, 1998 and December 07, 1998. NEA Partners VIII currently owns 547,881 shares. A Form 4 reporting the transaction was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 1999. WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 31, 1999 (States via COMTEX) -- Silverado Fund I, L.P. of Baltimore, MD, a Shareholder of Object Design, Inc. (SYMBOL: ODS), accumulated 77,500 shares in 3 transactions for $6.25 each between December 03, 1998 and December 07, 1998. Silverado Fund I, L.P. currently owns 547,881 shares. A Form 4 reporting the transaction was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 1999. Regarding Microsoft SQL Server7.0 supporting XML: I don't think of it as a direct threat to ODIS's product line. MSFT doesn't position itself with regard to ODIS anyway, hence it's more an issue for the other big RDBMS heavies (ORCL, SYBS, IFMX, IBM). A similar announcement by Computer Associates (Jasmine) would be more serious, IMO. Regards, Gustave.

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2826)	4/1/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: hasbeen101	Respond to of 3194

Bob, In my view it was absolutely inevitable that SQL Server would at some stage incorporate XML support, just as you can indeed use SQL Server for storing objects. If you store objects in SQL Server, the "only" catches are that this takes a lot more programming and runs a lot slower than doing it with an OBDMS. The same is likely to be true with XML. I actually think it's good for the RDBMS vendors to promote technologies like Java and XML, because these are areas where ObjectStore works much better than the RDBMS. If the RDBMS vendors didn't promote these technologies, the adoption rate would be a lot slower.