Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> Some vendors have enough power to dictate standards.
> And no, IBM is not one of them, due to some silly contracts they made
> up with someone called William H Gates III long ago.
Yup, should've stuck with CPM, too late now.
Also should have given Larry the list of SQLCODEs when he asked, too
late now.
I don't believe that any vendor alone is powerful enough to dictate the
standard.
W.g. Oracle had to implement the OUTER JOIN syntax. Microsoft had to
implement recursion using WITH.
IBM had to implement IDENTITY and SEQUENCEs watching closely the
precedents set by Oracle and MS/Sybase. Call it convergence if you wish.
Bt no vendor owns the center of gravity in this game.
Not as long as they try to steal each others marketshare ;-)
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sat Apr 09 2005 - 13:30:31 CDT
