Have you sorted out your travel for this yet? If you book it now it
shouldn't be more than 11 pounds! (get the 16:15 down, return the same
evening) Note that they do like to go out for a drink afterwards at a
local pub.
Alan
Brian Saxby writes:
> BCS OOPS Specialist Group
>
> 6:30 pm Wednesday 4th Jul 2001
> OOPS-153
> Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,
> What is the Best (XML) Database Solution of them All?
>
> Akmal B. Chaudhri, Informix Labs (USA)
>
> Venue:
> Logica Ltd, United Kingdom House (5th Floor),
> 180 Oxford Street, W1N 0DS
> (entrance in Great Titchfield Street)
> Map at: http://www.logica.com/about/around/lon.jpg
> Admission Free - No pre-registration required
>
>
> Managing XML documents is problematic when document collections grow. How do
> we successfully store and query document collections?
>
> One solution is a database. We will discuss the problem of integrating XML
> with databases and examine choices, such as relational databases, object
> databases, object-relational databases and native XML servers.
>
>
> Akmal Chaudhri has been working in the area of Objects and Databases for 10
> years. He has been a regular presenter at a number of international
> conferences, such as OOPSLA and Object World. He has co-edited the books
> "Object Databases in Practice", Prentice-Hall, 1998 and "Succeeding with
> Object Databases", John Wiley & Sons, 2000 and is about to start on his next
> publishing project on Java and XML Data Management.
>
> At present, he is a Senior Architect with Informix Labs, where his
> responsibilities include evaluating new technologies, such as EJB and XML.
> He has previously worked for Reuters, Logica and Computer Associates. He
> holds a BSc in Computing & Information Systems, MSc in Business Systems
> Analysis & Design and a PhD in Computer Science. He likes to think that he
> is not a technology evangelist, but a technology pragmatist.
>
>
>
>
>
> OOPS Meetings Programme Committee:
> Brian Saxby, Kingston University [[log in to unmask]];
> Hedley Apperly, Princeton Softech [[log in to unmask]]
> Immo Huneke, Logica [[log in to unmask]]
>
> OOPS Meetings Schedule - http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/oops.htm
>
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>
> August - No meeting
>
> 6:30 pm Wednesday 5th September 2001
> OOPS-154: Fast Changing Data in a Fast Changing World
> (Issues and solutions in handling "live data")
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