Paul wrote:
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> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
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>>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!
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> 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.
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>
> Paul...
A complete read of the article ... including links ... shows that Oracle
had it in version 3: Likely preceding InterBase's predecessor. But my
comments were not about "who had it first" rather on who might be
holding key technology patents today.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 11:41:20 CDT
