Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> Wouldn't be surprised. I'm waiting for Microsoft to release SQL Server
> 2005 and its blatant attempt to imitate Oracle's multiversion read
> consistency. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the law suits are already
> drawn up: They should be!

Interbase has used MVCC (Multi Generational Architecture, record-versioning, record-shadowing - whatever you want to call it) for years and didn't steal it. Apparently, according to Jim Starkey the creator of Interbase, he invented MVCC.

Paul...

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