Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

What about SQLAnywhere? Will sybase add all features from it to Adaptive Server Enterprise?

In comp.databases.sybase Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_news.hex.net> wrote:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Norris would say:

>>In comp.databases.sybase Nemo <Nemo_at_nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>The only one back then with true row locking, BTW.
>>
>>> Sorry to be picky - but the first Db with row-level locking was RDB on
>>> VMS. Oracle bought them and tried to "kill" it!!
>>
>>> -old VMS guy
>>
>>Hope Sybase wouldn't kill powerbuilder

> Not likely.

> Oracle bought RDB in order to get:
> a) Access to the RDB customers
> b) Access to the RDB developers
> c) Access to the RDB code base.

> All of those things are *primarily* of value to Oracle insofar as they
> become *Oracle* customers, developers, and code. It makes a lot of
> sense for Oracle to buy RDB, chew it up, ingest the useful parts to
> become part of the "Oracle Operations," and then spit out the bones.

> For PowerBuilder, there is *no* overlap between the functionality of
> Sybase Dynamic Server and that of PowerBuilder.

> Indeed, when Oracle is selling SQL*Forms, Designer 2000, and such, and
> Microsoft is selling Access and such, as front end tools, Sybase
> needed, fairly desparately, to *add* something like PowerBuilder to
> their arsenal of tools.

> There are nefarious things Sybase could do with PowerBuilder; deciding
> to discontinue it altogether isn't one of the options that makes a
> whole lot of sense...
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