Subject Re: [ib-support] Why OODBMS never toppled RDBMS
Author Martijn Tonies
Some more reading on the subject...

http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid13_gci769023,00.html

and

http://www.dbazine.com/pascal3.html

Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.interbaseworkbench.com

Upscene Productions
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"This is an object-oriented system.
If we change anything, the users object."


>
> Not quite on topic, but it does follow a thread from last week.
>
> Why did Object-oriented database systems never catch on? This is
> SAP's take on it, but makes sense:
>
> http://www.sapdb.org/pdf/backsapdb_eng.pdf
>
> The argument is that the app server middle tier became the thing that
> handles the complexity, eliminating the need for overly feature-
> burdoned OODBMS.