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martin1975

Not sure how true this is, but I heard Oracle "ripped" off Sybase's code base at some early point... Where's Sybase now and where's Oracle, eh? :)

edit: quoted "ripped off" due to correction from response, it was a legal deal.

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Sybase’s database code is doing quite well, in its perfectly-legal descendant, Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft partnered with Sybase—and Ashton-Tate—on porting Sybase’s software to OS/2 in a deal that included Microsoft getting exclusive rights to make the database on x86 shortly after its first release, and when the deal ended Microsoft kept the rights to continue developing and marketing the database, though Sybase was then also allowed to enter the x86 market.)

Ashton Tate... whew, that rings bells.. dbase3 and foxpro :). Thanks for the walk down memory lane, I get nostalgic sometimes for my C64 too.

And I'm not -that- old :)

You mean the joint venture between Microsoft and Sybase that led to SQL Server? This was legal, soup to nuts.

My bad. Ripped off is not the right word. Though nice leverage, if you can afford it :).

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