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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:01:26 -0700 From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...> They then get this faraway look in their eyes and hint that, should their database outperform an RDBMS on certain transactional data, and should people decide to use their native XML database as the database of record, well, then, they're not about to dissuade them. Witness, for example, Mike Champion's comments about bill-of-material data. Ah, yes, the faraway look in their eyes. I know what you're talking about, and it's a sad thing when it strikes its victims. I am one of the co-founders of Object Design (now eXcelon Corp.) and one of the technical architects of ObjectStore. As far as this mailing list goes, by necessity I am speaking for myself. I am not speaking as any kind of official "editorial voice" of the company, much less as a representative or apologist for everything that various people in the company have said over the course of the last 13 years. However, I can say that the faraway look is officially out. The person who is now head of product management for ObjectStore says that the corporate position to any prospective customer is: if an RDBMS solves your problem properly and adequately, then we aren't going to try to sell you ObjectStore for that problem. I would add that the same applies to XIS (the XML DBMS product). (Whether every sales rep is wise enough to heed this principle is something I can't answer for, but I think thing have improved a lot along those lines.) I agree with everything else you said. -- Dan
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