SAP official history is at http://www.sapdb.org/history.htm Amusingly, they have "blanked out" what SAPDB was originally called. Of personal interest to me is the Cincom connection in that I worked with their software for much of the 80's...
Kip Bryant |Um, no, not really. |SAPDB is Sybase, pure and simple. |Jared |On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:21, Gordon, Emery {PDBI~Palo Alto} wrote: |> There is a new alternative. SAPDB is open source but supported by SAP. Whan |> used outside of SAP applications it is free but charged when used inside of |> SAP. The support is from a major software company and the features are much |> closer to the Oracle feature set. |> |> Emery Gordon |> |> -----Original Message----- |> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:32 PM |> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L |> |> |> |> |> -- "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> |> > I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list, |> > but it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle |> > than Access. |> > |> > It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well. |> |> In some ways it scales better than Oracle. For load+query |> (a.k.a., "warehouse") operations it can be faster than |> Oracle because it doesn't get tangled up with rollbacks, |> etc. On systms with many "instances" it also can be much |> simpler to administer. |> |> -- |> Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer |> Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 |> +1 800 762 1582 |-- |Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com |-- |Author: Jared Still | INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 |San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists |-------------------------------------------------------------------- |To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message |to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in |the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L |(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may |also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).