Object Databases and Mass Storage Systems : The Prognosis

(MSS). Many of the capabilities mentioned in this report are expected to become available in commercial products long before 2004. However, it is felt unwise to attempt to extrapolate much beyond the year 2000, particularly when some people predict that much of our current computing infrastructure, namely PCs and workstations, will become obsolete before then. Thus, rather than extrapolate too far into the future, we prefer to make more realistic, and justifiable, predictions for a shorter time period, and update these predictions with time. This document has been produced in response to the revised milestone 1 set by the LCRB on the RD45 collaboration. The purpose of the document is to provide the appropriate technological input to the LHC Computing Model Working Groups.