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Monday, October 30, 2006

The db4o User I Met in the Phoenix Airport

Something funny happened to me while I was at the airport last week on the way home from Phoenix, Arizona. This guy who was at the boarding gate waiting for the same flight asked me if I worked for db4o because I was wearing my db4o t-shirt (as worn by Carl in the picture to the right). And I said "yes, do you know it?". He said he uses it!

So we got talking and he said they generally use it for development and rapid prototyping, and when it's ready, they actually outsource the work to India to convert it to TopLink (create all the mappings and database schema) for production. An interesting use of db4o that just goes to show that it sure helps with productivity.

It was really great to meet a random db4o user and to see how they are using it. I guess I'll be wearing my shirt more often. Ummm, Christof, could i get a 2 week supply of db4o schwag? ;)