(DBWORLD) New Book on Object-Oriented Databases

Akmal B Chaudhri (akmal@soi.city.ac.uk)
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:20:53 +0100 (BST)

A book containing 18 case studies, written by users and practitioners,
will be published in the very near future. This book describes practical
experiences (+ve and -ve) that people have had using OODB technology. Case
studies include all the "major" products: GemStone, O2, Objectivity/DB,
ObjectStore and VERSANT. There are also several papers on Object to
Relational Mapping/Isolation Layers.

"Object Databases in Practice"
M.E.S. Loomis and A.B. Chaudhri (eds.)
Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0-13-899725-X

US$45.00 (List Price)

A web page at Prentice-Hall will appear in due course (check
http://www.phptr.com/)

Cheers,

-- Akmal.

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment
can prove me wrong." - Albert Einstein

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