| September 1998 | Vol. 21 No. 3 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Chair of the TC on Data Engineering | Betty Salzberg | 1 |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 2 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Donald Kossmann | 3 |
Special Issue on Interoperability |
| Data Access Interoperability in the IBM Database Family |   |
| Michael Carey, Laura M. Haas, James Kleewein, and Berthold Reinwald | 4 |
| The Sybase Architecture for Extensible Data Management |   |
| Steve Olson, Richard Pledereder, Phil Shaw, and David Yach | 14 |
| Interoperability, Distributed Applications and Distributed Databases: The Virtual Table Interface |   |
| Michael Stonebraker, Paul Brown, and Martin Herbach | 21 |
| Solving the Data Inter-operability Problem Using a Universal Data Access Broker |   |
| Mike Higgs and Bruce Cottman | 28 |
| Exporting Database Functionality - The Concert Way |   |
| Lukas Relly, Heiko Schuldt, and Hans-J. Schek | 37 |
Announcements and Notices |
| 1999 SIGMOD/PODS Call for Papers | 52 |
| 1999 International Conference on Database Theory | backcover |