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As organizations move to make existing applications available over the distributed computing environment of the World Wide Web, focus is shifting away from traditional client/server computing. In the new distributed computing world of the Web the browser is the client; multimedia is the content; and, scripts and applets replace server-based SQL stored procedures. Application developers use true object-oriented tools and object-based development environments. Mark Palmer, Object Design (www.odi.com), will present an introduction to object database technology and explain why application development is shifting away from the traditional client/server relational database mode towards a Web based, distributed computing model. He will discuss the capabilities of object-oriented databases to manage, store, query and retrieve extended data types and demonstrate the abilities of objected-oriented databases to store and serve network or hierarchies of related business objects. |