Raytheon Systems: DCGS
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[edit] Objectivity Case History
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[edit] Important
This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.
[edit] Customer Information
- Customer: Raytheon Systems Co.
- Project:DCGS is a part of Raytheon's Digital Ground Intelligence Force initiative. Its capabilities are classified.
- Location: Falls Church, VA
- Territory: Government
- Industry Verticals:
- Technologies:
- Application Domain: Data Acquisition Engineering Analysis of Satellite Info. (D3)
- Market Characterization: (Remove the irrelevant categories, then remove this clue)
- Number of developer licenses:
- Runtime license volume and type:
[edit] Status
- First Contact:
- Lead came from:
- Evaluation Start Date:
- Evaluation Finish Date:
- First Purchase Date: 2/26/98
- Deployment Date:
- Current Status: Deployed
- Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Maybe
- Referenceable?: Ask the Sales Representative.
[edit] Environment
- Hardware: SGI
- Operating System: Irix
- Precision: 32-bit
- Development language: C++
- Compiler: SGI's.
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- Open Source tools:
[edit] The Project/Product
[edit] Project Background
The system is classified. The Lockheed D3 project in Denver recommended Objectivity/DB.
[edit] Project/Product Description
Data Acquisition Engineering Analysis of Satellite Info.
[edit] Buying Criteria
[edit] Business Priorities
- Company viability - must feel we ar not a "vanishing vendor" as they discovered using Illustra. This was a huge issue with Raytheon.
[edit] Technical Priorities
- Scalability - need the ability to add more servers in the future and immediately see the benefits of distribution.
- Distribution - need to be able to add servers in the future as their volumes grow.
- Performance.
[edit] Competitors/Alternatives
On 2/26/98 Objectivity received a PO for $517,140 having won the technical evaluation against Oracle.
The SAles Rep at the time, Don Beck, wrote: Oracle has attempted to convince them that Oracle 8 is truly OO. Raytheon has since discovered this is simply not true. The fact that Oracle does not support inheritance is a big deal. Oracle is trying to show them a work around for the lack of inheritance. So far, they've yet to produce anything.
There were some cases where Oracle 8 was quite a bit faster than Objectivity/DB [Note: PQE would help today]. Raytheon felt that complex queries and the results of the bulk load where Objectivity was much faster (orders of magnitude) were more important.
Raytheon went on to say that the other deciding factors are:
- Oracle 8 does not support inheritance (Oracle9i and later releases do)
- Oracle 8 does not support complex relationships
- Oracle 8 performs unacceptably slow for complex queries
- Oracle 8 is not an Object Database Management System despite the spin they try to put out."
[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity
- Scalability
- Supports complexity data model
- Supports complex relationships
- Deploys successfully
- Recommendation of Lockheed Denver(D3)
- Supports Inheritance
[edit] Partners
- None
[edit] Collateral
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[edit] Contact Information
- Objectivity Rep:
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