Object Design Inc, Burlington, Massachusetts has been called in by Sun Microsystems Inc to help out with its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere effort. The multi-year agreement covers incorporation of object storage technology into Project DOE, the object-oriented environment being built in compliance with the Object Management Group’s Common Object Request Broker standard for distributed computing. Object Design will pull apart its ObjectStore object database and retrieve the elements needed to develop a Persistent Storage Manager Engine and license it for SunSoft. The Engine will provide capabilities analogous to an object-oriented file system, and supply the basic object storage capability for applications using SunSoft’s Project DOE, Object Design said. SunSoft will provide an open interface to the Engine, enabling customers to upgrade to a full-featured object-oriented database, when required. The pact also allows SunSoft to license the Persistent Storage Management Engine technology to Hewlett-Packard for use as part of its Distributed Object Management Facility, but Object Design will retain the right to license the technology to others.
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