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- From: David N. Smith <dnsmith@watson.ibm.com>
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- Subject: Re: CFP: New Book on Object-Oriented Databases
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 13:02:15 GMT
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- In article <3163e4ea.666370950@news.dimensional.com> The Right Reverend
- Colin James III, cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com writes:
- >Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal@sarc.city.ac.uk> posted with deletions:
- >
- >| A new book on OODBs is currently being planned, to be edited by:
- >|
- >| Mary E.S. Loomis PhD, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
- >| and Akmal B. Chaudhri, City University, London, UK
- >........^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >[ shameless plug ]
- >
- >|
- >| Target audience
- >| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >|
- >| The target audience includes users or potential users of OODBs. The book
- >| will contain contributions by users and practitioners for users and
- >| practitioners. People will be able to use this book to judge whether OODB
- >| technology is suitable for them.
- >|
- >| Topics of interest
- >| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >|
- >| The topics of interest may include (but are not limited to):
- >|
- >| * Tips and tricks using particular products
- >| * Comparisons of products
- >....^^^^^^^^^^^
- >should be contrast of products (to show differences)
- >
- >| * Use of products for particular applications (case studies)
- >| * Management issues in adopting OODBs
- >| * Use of OODBs with ORBs
- >| * Use of OODBs with Relational systems (including Gateways)
- >| * Tradeoffs between alternative OODB application designs
- >| * Tradeoffs between alternative OODB languages bindings for application
- >| development (e.g. Smalltalk vs. C++)
- >.................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >i.e., this has nothing whatsoever to do with Eiffel (why didn't you
- >post this to comp.lang.ada and comp.databases.object, Achmall ?)
- >
-
- Colin:
-
- (1) Might one assume that to those Eiffel users who use OODBs such
- tradeoff's might be interesting to know?
-
- (2) Who else but the author or editor of a new book knows about the new
- book? Just the publisher and I'd much rather have the author or editor
- put up a notice than have publishers flooding us with new book notices.
-
- (3) Even if slightly inappropriate, and I for one don't thnik it is, I
- recall a time or two when you (and maybe even I) have posted things that
- others might deem less than completely focused on the topic at hand. It's
- often better to just let them go by ignored.
-
- (4) Reverend James, I think you inadvertently mispelled the posters name.
- It is not 'Achmall' but is 'Akmal'.
-
- Dave
-
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