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To: hasbeen101 who wrote (10313)	4/4/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I worked for ODI in a previous incarnation, and in those days they didn't really have what most people would regard as a database -- what they had was an OO virtual-memory extender. The multiuser part of the stuff was very unreliable, and there was no hot backup capability at all (if you were using more than one database at a time, which you pretty much had to). The DBA tools were pathetic, as were most of the development tools. Basically ObjectStore was a high-performance library of specialized utility. If it did what you wanted, it was a win, otherwise forget it. Maybe things have changed at ODI since I left, but I doubt that it has changed much. A company like Oracle spends much more engineering talent parking their cars in a month than ODI has to put on their entire product line in a year (that's an attempt at humorously pointing out that Oracle has probably 50 times as many engineers as ODI working on the database engine). If MSFT has such poor luck with their product with infinite resources, think how hard it is for ODI to try to do this with an entirely new kind of database and almost no money. In short, I think that it's unclear whether this is a chicken problem or an egg problem. There apparently isn't any money to be made in OODB right now, but that might be because there aren't any OODB's. (Personally I think that OODB is still technology in search of a problem, at least the pure OODB stuff...)