db4o Developer Community

May 2005 - Posts

• Open source collaboration tools

  We were asked to participate in a EU research project to develop next generation collaborative working tools, together with DaimlerChrysler and ABB. This made me think for a second before I realized how important it was for db4objects to exclusively use Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:49 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0

• "Classic Relational Database Architectures are Slowly Sagging to their Knees"

  A great article by Microsoft's Jim Gray on the 'State of the Database'. I couldn't agree more on his assessment about the evolution of the data layer and the fact that SQL has reached its limits: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=293 Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:50 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Object Database, Silicon Valley