Re: Wrapped PLSQL

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: 29 Oct 2002 23:45:41 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns92B6E8832E26Epingottpingottbah@209.189.89.243>

Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in news:43suru4495cif1qveecro9dijc1r9t3eqt_at_4ax.com:

> On 29 Oct 2002 12:23:43 -0600, Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote:
>
>>Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in
>>news:5bjtru0k6o8lco0e5d2gij2rmsso39n70g_at_4ax.com:
>>
>>> They have been purposively wrapped as not to give away some crown
>>> jewels, and to avoid to have Bill Gates build an Oracle clone.
>>
>>I don't know what the incentive would be for Microsoft to build an
>>Oracle clone. They have MS SQL.
>
>
> Did MS ever *invent* (as opposed to buy or usually steal) anything?
>

It's irrelevant whether MS _invents_ or buys anything. The point is they already _have_ (bought the base and built on top of) an RDBMS.

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

Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 23:45:41 CST