Persistent Object Systems: From Technology to Market

Abstract. This text describes how persistent object system technology developed in European basic research is being used by a small German startup software company to realize innovative customer-oriented information services on the Internet. The description of this particular \entrepreneurial experiment" is intended to provide some input to the discussion of possibilities to stimulate the uptake of academic research results by industry in Germany. 1 Persistent Object System Technology Development Between 1991 and 1995 an enthusiastic team of researchers, Ph.D. and master's students at the computer science department of the University of Hamburg created Tycoon, a programming environment for the construction of integrated persistent object systems. The vision that uni ed and shaped this team can be summarized best by the following quote from Mat93, p. 1{6]: { Persistent object systems are software systems that provide their users with a exible and problem-oriented access to lar...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: GI
• Authors: Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt, Sören Stamer
• Keywords: GI 1997, Object System Technology, Persistent Object, Persistent Object Systems, Theoretical Computer Science