Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com>wrote:
> Guido Stepken wrote:
>> Hi, Billy !
>> I don't really know, if PostgreSQL, Firebird, Informix, LogicSQL are
>> phantasy products. The all support MVTO, MVCC. MS and other database
>> makers haven't understood the great advantage of this technology.
>
> Another point-of-view would be that the most successful products in
> the marketplace examined the technology in depth and then
> intentionally steered away from it.
>
> For you to assume that the people at Oracle, IBM (DB2) and Microsoft
> (SQL Server) are less capable of making a technology decision than
> the most marginal players in the database world is lacking in
> credibility.
But from what I can see, Oracle and DB/2 have been moving to
implementing things analagous to MVCC. (It would, of course, be
totally inappropriate to allow someone else to steal thunder by having
Previously Invented it, so it would be marketing suicide to allow what
they implement to be _called_ MVCC...)
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Received on Fri Aug 22 2003 - 21:34:10 CDT
