Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT (CI No 2,176), but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT, also claiming it to the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT operating system. It claims that the kit will enable companies to develop distributed, high-performance object-oriented applications that harness the full potential of the 32-bit Windows NT environment – and do it cost-effectively – and it can also be used to develop and deploy object-oriented applications under Windows 3.1. The starter kit will be followed by full communications to provide transparent access, storing and sharing of objects distributed in multiple databases and mixed networks of Unix, VMS and Windows NT that use the Network File System protocol; it will be available in August at $3,000.
