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Subject: Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.
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Paul wrote:
> DA Morgan <damorgan@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.

http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/archive/2005/02/18/MultiversionConcurrencyControlBeforeInterBase.aspx