Re: Microsoft to announce buyout of Informix
Date: 1997/05/24
Message-ID: <01bc67ec$fe38a840$2f5893cc_at_default>#1/1
Jym Dyer <jym_at_igc.org> wrote in article <Jym.yc7pvuj3p1b.fsf_at_igc.org>...
> > I think a more likely target for Microsoft would be Sybase.
> > After all, MS SQL Server is rooted in the Sybase kernel . . .
>
> =o= Don't you read Microsoft's ads? They claim that MS SQL
> Server is built from the ground up for NT server. This must
> surely mean that they've completely rewritten it, seeing as
> how the code they got from Sybase at the time was developed
> on Sun3 boxes. :-)
> <_Jym_>
Sure! Just like they "wrote" MS-DOS (ex. Seattle Computer) and conjured up Windows (ex. Xerox) or pioneered disk compression algorithms, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Microsoft is just FULL of innovation! (From without rather than from within.)
Scott Secor
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Received on Sat May 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST