Maybe things have changed recently, but I think the biggest thing against them (besides some of their obscene pricing policies - read ObjectStore) was their poor performance querying across very large sets of data compared to their stodgy relational counterparts.
They were stillborn because they fell apart under certain conditions. Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Christopherson Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] Cmp vs hibernate Matthew Baird wrote: > couple notes: > > - try selling an enterprise level application that doesn't support > a "standard" rdbms on the backend (oracle/sql server/db2) Probably the second biggest thing (after fear of change) that caused ODBMS's to be stillborn: "Will <insert corporate standard reporting tool> work with it? No!?!?! How do you expect to sell it?" -danch ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user