The Object Database Management Group has agreed on release 1.1 of its ODMG-93 specification which it is trying to establish as a common interface for application portability across object databases. Version 1.1 improves C++ bindings and has better object definition language grammar than last October’s 1.0 release, the group says. The Object Database Group has picked up Andersen Consulting, Chicago, Illinois; Electronic Data Systems Corp, Arlington, Texas; Micram Object Technology GmbH, Bochum, Germany; Persistence Software, San Mateo, California; and Sybase Inc, Emeryville, California, as new members. Electronic Data Systems and Andersen, not object database vendors, can participate only as reviewer, and not voting members.
