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Mike Card just announced (via Roberto Zicari's blog) that the OMG is hosting an Object Database Standard Definition Scope meeting in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday afternoon, December 9th. The agenda for this meeting will be as follows:1300-1310 Welcome and introductory comments (Mike Card)1310-1330 Review of scoping ...

I have received a note from Mike Card that I would like to share with you. Please note that the registration link sent by Mike (see below) is not yet active.... ''The OMG is hosting an Object Database Standard Definition Scope meeting in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday afternoon, December 9th. The purpose of this meeting will be ...

A conversation with Mike Card. I have interviewed Mike Card on the latest development of the OMG working group which aims at defining a new standards for Object Database Systems. Mike works with Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) and is involved in object databases and their application to challenging problems, including pattern recognition. ...

I have received some information from Mrs. Charlotte W. Wales (The MITRE Corporation) related to the OMG Object Database Technology Users and Vendors Roundtable, which took place on 11 December 2007 at the OMG meeting in Burlingame, CA. Here is my summary of her notes: The meeting attendance was a mixture of users and vendors representing ...

I thought it would be interested to give you an insight of the discussion currently going on at ODBMS.ORG. The issue is what Standards for Object Databases? Here are two notes, one from Wiliam Cook and one from Mike Card. For more details on the discussion, please visit the Forum at ODBMS.ORG. A copy of the OMG white paper on Next-Generation ...

Hi everybody.  I'm sorry that I was not able to attend the meeting on Dec 12. I hope that someone can post some information on it. I think it is great that these topics are being discussed, but I also have some significant disagrements with points being made here. My biggest issue is that I don't agree with the premise of the OMG RFI ...

For those of you interested in standards, here is an event you may want to consider attending, the: Object Database Technology Users and Vendors Roundtable on Tuesday, December 12, 2007 08:00-12:00 am, part of the OMG Technical Meeting in Burlingame, CA The Meeting is Sponsored by the OMG Middleware and Related Services Platform Task ...

Hey everyone- Read the following post from a thread on Slashdot about Brian Aker's thoughts on relational & OO databases (see http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/0019253&from=rss ): Today if you look around in the open source world you will find examples where developers are wrapping OO layers on top of the relational ...

I was asked by a number of people how the OMG standardization process works. I have found a link to a power point presentation which explains the essence of how the OMG technology process works and it's the official OMG word rather than just my interpretation of it. Here's the link to a Power Point presentation (as .pdf ) which does not ...

Dear allthere is a need of a broad discusson on this. Standards are very important for the accepatance of any technology andfor ODBMS in particular.I would encourage to exchage and share as much as possible comments/ideas to help the organizers of this initiative to gather as much as possible viable feedback.RVZ