Re: Microsoft to announce buyout of Informix

Posted in 1997

Jym Dyer — 22 May 1997 19:22:56 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> I think a more likely target for Microsoft would be Sybase. > After all, MS SQL Server is rooted in the Sybase kernel . . . =o= Don't you read Microsoft's ads? They claim that MS SQL Server is built from the ground up for NT server. This must surely mean that they've completely rewritten it, seeing as how the code they got from Sybase at the time was developed on Sun3 boxes. :-) <_Jym_>