NEWS RELEASE 03/21/2009

Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization: Call for Submissions.

ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the opening of a call for submissions for Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization.

ODBMS.ORG invites both vendors and Application architects, Enterprise architects, Developers who use databases to submit implementation techniques (database design patterns) which are generally useful for all adopters.

The best submissions will be published in a new series of reports in ODBMS.ORG. All submissions will be published under free software licenses.

"It is common practice that some database designers treat an Object Database (ODB) like a Relational Database (RDB). That is they are very query intensive rather than model intensive in their design. Some designers start with a “relational” model, and then adjust it to a model that is more "ODB-oriented", or closer to their problem domain, in order to get better results. This task is difficult. " says Roberto V. Zicari, Editor of ODBMS.ORG

To help developers in their design task, ODBMS.ORG will report "common persistent model patterns for performance and/or scalability optimization".
Moreover, ODBMS.ORG will give an Award for the most valuable pattern as voted by the ODBMS.ORG community.

-Submission modalities: Submissions should be sent as reports in .pdf only. Submissions will be considered only if indicating the name of the auhor(s) (or team), affiliation, complete address, and e-mail. If the submission includes some actual software, you should *before* contact me to verify the modality of the submission.
Please send your submission by e-mail to: editor at odbms dot org

Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: May 29, 2009
Public Voting: between May 30-June 20, 2009
Awards for the pattern which receives the highest votes: June 25, 2009

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About ODBMS.ORG
ODBMS.ORG (www.odbms.org) is a vendor-independent, not-for-profit educational program on object database technology and the integration between object-oriented programming and databases. Designed by Prof. Roberto Zicari of Frankfurt University, the program's goal is to promote and further the use of object databases - by offering free resources for students, faculty and researchers at universities and research centers, as well as for JAVA and .NET developers in the commercial and the open source world. Content is provided by a panel of internationally recognized experts, who share research articles and teaching materials with the community via the organization's Web portal.

Contact ODBMS.ORG at editor@odbms.org.