The proponents of object-oriented technology contend that once it is established, it will sweep about 90% of today’s software engineering technology into the dustbin of history – after all, not many hand-built cars are sold in this era of mass production – and so we are likely to see a lot of bet-hedging among the software engineering fraternity. Yesterday it was announced that James Martin has made a major investment in Menlo Park, California-based Versant Object Technology Corp and will become a contributing member to the Versant Advisory Board. The additional funding will be used to expand Versant’s current object-oriented database management systems family.
