On Nov 12, 2015 7:44 AM, "James K. Lowden" <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:45:52 -0700 > Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > > > This from the same company that gave us ODBC, ESQL, OLE DB, MDAC/Jet, > > DAO, RDO, ADO, ADO.NET, ADO Entity Framework, LINQ, the registry, > > Access, SQL Server Express? > > The real irony is that every one of those technologies had (I'll bet) > more resources expended on it than SQLite has had. > > > Obviously getting SQLite into Windows is a great thing. It?s just > > that it would have been even nicer a decade ago. > > It's more like 25 years. The registry, with all its obvious defects, > made its appearance in Windows 3.1, which the oracle Wikipedia puts at > 1992. At the time Microsoft already had the Jet engine, demonstrating > the feasibility of implementing relational technology on the machines > of the day.
What sort of technologies does Microsoft possess that make you believe they could have opted to use SQLite 10 years prior to its initial release (in a very different form than today's SQLite 3)? :)
