Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

Serge Rielau wrote:
> (i.e. improvements). So, without having read through the patents in
> detail, the first MVCC patent I saw was from 1995, so anything MVCC
> available in Oracle 1991 (there is likely a way to get the submission
> date) would pretty much be up for grabs for these technical reasons.

Not exactly sure, my Compuserve days are long gone, but I do recall Borland registering their MVCC as the "one and only" around 1990-91...

> Patents do not get granted in retrospect.
> You can't today patent that idea you blurted out 2 years ago at the
> x-mas party when you were drunk.

but it sure sounded like a good idea at the time... ;) Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 05:29:24 CDT