Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> > 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.

> 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.

Couldn't it be like, say, QuickSort? Nobody has to get permission to do a QuickSort. Would one need to be worried about patents if one were to implement a database with a locking mechanism?

Paul...

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