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On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:29:56PM -0700, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
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&gt; I've done some work in this direction, although with an object-relational database, not an OODB.  I'm convinced that the OODB concept is fatally flawed.

I've heard this statement before, but most of the explanations I've heard amount to "been there, done that, didn't work." What is wrong with OODBs, in your opinion?

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