>I would like to make a database that consists of live, sub-classable objects
>on the server. As a provider I would provide all of the base classes and
>plug-ins necessary and the developer would be able to easily create their
>own derivations of the classes to meet their specific requirements. Things
>like load balancing, clustering, security, data types, collations, etc.
>would all be out of the box.

And I would add to this database an elegant solution for
field inter-dependency and re-computation, which
I have implemented in my projects.

(Never mind - also dreaming here. ;)

Glebas