Summary of Objectives of the Workshop

The objectives of this workshop are

1.

to enable technical people in DBMS companies to share with academics some of the interesting intellectual problems which have arisen while implementing large-scale DBMSs,

2.

to find problems of mutual interest for possible collaboration,

3.

to discuss ways that DBMS companies can enable academics to make their research reflect advances in current practice and

4.

to discuss mechanisms for longer term exchanges of information.