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RE: *URGENT* -- Call for support
Hi all
Please let me add few things on that thread, as a former technical Director
for a well known commercial ODBMS in Southern Europe, and now as the
president of a brand new company that tries to push Open Source initiatives
whenever possible.
* it's quite easy to find people that can contribute to an XML thing, or to
an IDE tool, or an JSP something
* but real database kernel skills is not something so common
* suppose that Open Source intiatives can take 10 % of a market
* and today ODBMS is <2% of the whole DBMS market
* => so the target for an Open Source ODBMS is no more than <0,2 % which is
not huge
* analysts says that some technos are ready for Open Source, while others
are not
* in the first category they put : Operating Systems, middlewares, ...
* in the second they put : Databases in general
* please cf. the latest Forrester study on Open Source technologies
* I'm quite convinced that ODBMS market is having a new birthday owing to
Java and J2EE
* EJB market is a huge potential for ODBMS
* there is NO "xml storage market" (see Excelon troubles these days) !!!!
* xml is definitely not a storage format, it's only an exchange format
* ODMG is dead ... (yes it is)
* ... long live to JDO !
How many downloads do you have per month (and total) ?
What was your original idea/target when you started Ozone ?
Is there an updated requirement/specification document ?
Do you have somewhere a kind of to-do list with needed enhancements,
priorities, assigned resources, ...
How many people are regularly contributing to Ozone ?
How many contributors would be necessary to complete your product, in how
much time ?
What are your relationships with Apache, ObjectWeb and jBoss ?
Are you working with universities ?
Falko, I'm quite sure that JDO is the best chance for your product.
In the next months a huge interest will raise for JDO drivers, and ODBMS are
obviously "pure" JDO sources.
Best Regards,
Eric Samson
LIBeLIS, Liberty for Large IS
President
+33 6 0302 5341
Eric@libelis.com <mailto:Eric@libelis.com>
-----Message d'origine-----
De : ozone-users-owner@ozone-db.org
[mailto:ozone-users-owner@ozone-db.org]De la part de Falko Braeutigam
Envoyé : jeudi 18 janvier 2001 21:40
À : Sean Allen; ozone-users@ozone-db.org
Objet : Re: *URGENT* -- Call for support
Sean and all,
it's late here and I have to go home now. I'll answer tomorrow in more
detail. Thanks for your support so far.
Falko
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Sean Allen wrote:
> I concur whole-heartedly,
>
> I think Ozone is a great project, and has much potential for the future,
> It's a great Idea, implemented well, and I think it has a definite place
> amoungst all the various Java technology's that have exploded onto the
> scene (EJB, JDO etc)
> it offers, in my opinion a much purer solution than anything Sun have
> come up with for a persistant Java-Store as it does not waste it's time
> trying to map Object's to anything "Flat" (except serialized objects of
> course).
> I have just got back from a well needed break and I have some free time
> this year, before moving to Palo Alto, CA (My wife is from there) later
> this Year.
> I will gladly donate some time to Ozone this Year, and sincerely hope
> that the project (and your Interest in it, Falko!!!) continues.
> Someone point me at something to do and I will gladly help out as time
> and ability (just being realistic) allow
> Ozone is by far and away one of the better OSS Java projects I've seen.
> and like I said, I would gladly contribute some time to it this year.
> is there a list of TO-DO's somewhere?
>
> --
>
> Sean Allen
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