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[Fabien Celaia]

Salut tout le monde,

Je recherche dans la memoire collective la veritable histoire du deal entre Sybase et Microsoft qui deboucha sur MS-SQL server.

Quelqu'un se rappelle-t-il de comment cela c'est-il passe ? Rapellez-vous... c'etait avant 1996 et aux versions <= 4.2

[Gandalf Le Blanc]

Slt,

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...20SQL%20Server

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[SQLpro]

According to Kevin Kline, wich is MVP :

"
1987 Microsoft and Sybase announce a technology and marketing partnership.
Microsoft gets exclusive rights to market Sybase's DataServer product on OS/2 and all Microsoft-developed operating systems. Sybase gets royalties and added credibility in the Unix and VMS markers. Sybase ships its first commercial DBMS producr, called DataServer, for Sun workstations running Unix.

1988 Microsoft and Ashton-Tate announce a marketing partnership. Microsoft can't put a dent in dBase's tremendous market presence. Ashton-Tate wants access to Sybase's powerful multiuser data base management technology, which ships this year. Microsoft forms a three-way alliance.

1989 Ashton-Tate/Microsoft SQL Server Version 1.0 ships.

1990 Ashton-Tare dBase IV was floundering. Microsoft wanted to beef up its offerings for the new OS/2 LAN Manager product. Microsoft and Ashton-Tate quit the partnership. "Microsoft SQL Server" Version 1.1 ships by summer with support for Windows 3.0.

1991 A proliferation of Windows 3.0 front-end tools spurs rhe growth of Microsoft SQL Server. Later that year Microsoft and Sybase amend their contract to allow Microsoft to make actual bug fixes-all under Sybase supervision. IBM and Microsoft call off their OS/2 partnership with Microsoft to focus on Windows. Sybase surpasses $100 million in revenue and goes public on NASDAQ.

1992 Microsoft and Sybase SQL Server 4.2 ships. Microsoft diverts its attention away from OS/2 and into Windows NT. Microsoft SQL Server for Windows NT later ships its beta release while Sybase ships its much-vaunted System 10.

1993 Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 ships, closely followed by Microsoft SQL Server. By 1994, Sybase SQL Server System 10 and Microsoft SQL Server were competing unabashedly as the two formally ended their partnership.

1995 Microsofr SQL Server 6.0, a very significant release, ships in June. Sybase ships
the highly lauded, technically potent Sybase SQL Server 11. Sybase and PowerSoft merge to form the seventh largest independent software house.

1996 Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 goes into production. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 production ships.

1997 Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 beta ships. Sybase ships the production version of Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5.

1998 Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0 ships in the summer, while the Adaptive
Server Enterprise 11.9.2 production release goes out the door in September.
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 ships release to manufacturing copy late in the year.
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Source : Transact SQL Programming, O'Reilly p15

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[Fabien Celaia]

... et pour clore le sujet, un petit complement

http://www.cioupdate.com/insights/article.php/3302201

Comme dirait Goldman... "A nos actes manqués..."

1000 mercis