Posted by DA Morgan on 09/15/05 06:34

Alexander Kuznetsov wrote:
>>So much for innovation in Redmond. Why invent when you can copy.
>
>
> I feel your pain, but on the other hand I think Oracle did not invent
> SQL. IBM did, correct? Why invent the wheel anyway?

Actually IBM didn't invent it either. You need to look further back
into the history books for that.

But it is true that Ellison worked on System/R, IBM decided it
wasn't interested. And Ellison, legally, walked out with a couple
of partners and his knowledge and built it himself.

The difference is that Ellison didn't spend years criticizing
SQL and relational theory before adopting it. Microsoft has been
criticizing, for many years, the very features it will now tout
as innovations. That is quite a different situation methinks.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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