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Article: Oops! (object-oriented databases are the latest trend in the broad shift towards object orientation in the software industry)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 28, 1998
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Object-oriented programming is taking over the writing of much computer software. Its next conquest could be the database industry
DATABASES are the workhorses of corporate computing. Most people with a personal computer on their desk are familiar with spreadsheets, word-processors and e-mail. Though lucrative for their makers, these applications programs are relative minnows in the corporate-software world. The programs that really make business tick-handling sales transactions, reordering stock, scheduling production and so on-are the massive "relational" databases produced by the likes of Oracle, Sybase and IBM. These databases work by organising ...