Re: Oracle vs. Sybase

Jym Dyer wrote:
>
> > [Sybase SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server] were the same
> > product up until about 3 or 4 years ago. They are still VERY
> > similar though diverging. At the core they're still close
> > enough to be talked of as of the same family.
>
> =o= It's customary not to reopen the wounds of the recently
> divorced by referring to them as of the same family. :-)
>
> =o= The split happened while Sybase was working on V10 (which
> at that time was V5, but Microsoft was awarded custody of the
> number 5). So basically they diverged two major versions ago.
>
> =o= Microsoft claims that their SQL Server was was "built from
> the ground up for Windows NT Server," so we can assume they
> would have us believe that it's different at the core from the
> Sybase code they had (built from the ground up on Unix BSD).
> <_Jym_>
>
> Disclaimer: Speaking only for myself, not for Sybase.

Sheeeeezzzz! I thought this thread would finally die! If microsoft's SQL server is built from the ground up, how come it looks so much like Sybase 4.9.2?

The 'same family person evidently has not looked at System 11 on NT. I doubt he can then claim they are in the same family. :-) Received on Tue Jun 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT