Re: SQL Server on Linux

From: Patrice sur GMail <patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:49:11 -0400
Message-ID: <CACH2EDK6ce8PmDAR4kpsGaKy+6bUO7SBFki8DLrKMqKK6VkJUQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

I have an OS/2 Warp poster on my wall.

They should have open sourced the OS/2 code a decade ago IMHO.

IBM was stuck being dependent on Microsoft for permission to run Windows 95 apps in OS/2... A bad position to be in, whenever you're dependent on a competitor to run your own software.

Pat.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Well, SQL Server is only returning to where it began life (as a port of
> Sybase). From Wikipedia:
>
> 1988: Sybase, Microsoft, and Ashton-Tate port the Sybase RDBMS to the OS/2
> platform. Microsoft markets the new product as SQL Server.
>
> 1993: Sybase and Microsoft dissolve their partnership. Microsoft got a
> copy of the SQL Server code base. Sybase SQL Server version 4.2 and
> Microsoft SQL Server are identical. Their Transact-SQL (T-SQL) procedural
> language is the same, as is the basic process architecture. From this point
> there was divergence as Microsoft included more Windows features ...
>
>
> Iggy
>
> > From: phil_at_phillip.im
> > Subject: SQL Server on Linux
> > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:50:10 +0000
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Hell is due to freeze over!
> >
> > http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=67248
> >
> > ---Phil
> > --
> > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
> >
> >
>

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