Richard writes:
> 1. A "simple and standard" way to incorporate graphics and other large
> binary files.

Yes, BLOB support would be nice.  I've had some discussions with various
people about ways of storing Binary Large OBjects in Image (specifically
Java "objects") in Image, either with or without changes to Image itself.
This could turn Image into a pure Object DBMS from the Java programmer's
point of view.  Of course there are lots of other uses for BLOBs too.

> 3. A "simple and standard" CORBA interface implementation (I think I got
> that right) for the native Image calls and for the allbase SQL calls.

I'm sorry, but you can't use "simple" and "CORBA" in the same sentence :-)

We're very close to being able to use Java RMI to access remote Image
database objects on the 3000 from all kinds of Java client/server
applications.  There are also a number of Pure Java CORBA compatible
ORBs available or in development which may be one way to get CORBA
onto MPE, though the Java RMI stuff is a lot easier and definitely
more fun to work with.

G.