Re: Wrapped PLSQL

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: 30 Oct 2002 15:34:39 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns92B7954364899pingottpingottbah@209.189.89.243>

Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in news:gaYv9.1630 $Fd4.120393947_at_newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

> Pablo Sanchez wrote:

>> Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in
>>>Sold? 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, Sybase Inc sold version 4.x (I think it was 4.2 or 4.9) to
>> Microsoft.  This was when Sybase was the big bad wolf out in the RDBMS
>> market.  Oracle wasn't on the radar.  Sybase got cocky, sold it to
>> them, then blew it with System 10, Oracle came in and ... as they say
>> .. the rest is history.

>
> Being a wee bit interested in history, I thought I might look up this
> subject.
>
> 1. 1977. Oracle wasn't the new kid on the block. In fact, Oracle was the
> *first* company to release a commercial RDBMS after Dr. Codd defined
> what that is. See http://www.oracle.com/corporate/index.html?story.html.

Sorry I wasn't clear Karsten... what I meant by "Oracle wasn't on the radar" was that market share wise, Sybase owned the market.

> 3. 1988. Microsoft and Ashton-Tate announced Microsoft SQL Server, based
> on the RDBMS licensed from Sybase.

... and it looks like the umbilical cord was cut at version 4.21 of Sybase's SQL Server -- the name of Sybase's old product before ASE.

Thx!

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 15:34:39 CST