> In the 90's many of us (yes including me) thought that object databases would solve the problem by eliminating relations on the disk. We all know how that worked out.

What am I supposed to know about this? I've only used an object database for one serious (>100KLOC) project, but it was by far the best part of that system. I always wondered why that architecture never caught on.

The only reason I'm not using an ODBMS on my own projects today is that there's no good open-source one, but that seems like something a company could do something about, and a lousy reason to condemn an entire architecture.