Menlo Park, CA Ð After an initial sting from the agreement between Object Design (ODI) and NeXT announced at Object World in July, Versant Object Technology continues to ready the first ODBMS for the NeXT.
"ODI has a language extender, for developers," said Matthew Miller, director of corporate marketing for Versant. "VERSANT for NeXT is tailored for a network with data residing on different nodes."
NeXT CEO Steve Jobs has realized that there are two segments to the oo-database market and given public support to the product, Miller said.
VERSANT for NeXT, due before year's end, has an introductory price of $995. It is currently under beta testing at Williams Telecommunications, in The Woodlands, Texas, which helped write the Objective-C interface for the product.