Inactive Bloggers 11. Mar 2005, 22:10 CET, by Gavin King  For
several months, Versant, an old-school OODBMS vendor with a
collapsing market cap, has been making any number of false
claims about Hibernate in online webinars and sales
presentations. I went so far as to write a blog refuting their
claims, but then held back on publishing it because I thought
they didn't deserve the attention. They've now resorted to mass
emailings of a document with many false claims about Hibernate,
and we've decided we need to respond for the record.  (If you
haven't been bothered by Versant's spam, or knew to treat it
with extreme suspicion, you probably don't need to bother
reading any further.)  I'll answer the claims of the document,
point by point. I won't bother arguing that Hibernate is better
or Versant is better or whatever. Instead, as always, I
encourage potential users to try out both products, and see
which one works best for them.  A caveat: some of the claims
were true of Hibernate 2.1 but not of Hibernate 3.0 (