On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:18:51PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:39:29AM -0800, ow wrote:
> >
> > Have *never* seen ppl running Oracle or Sybase on Windows.
>
> I _have_ certainly seen plenty of people running Oracle on Windows.
> They weren't necessarily happy, of course, but people do it all the
> time.
>
> As for Sybase, you don't see that because Sybase on Windows was, for
> a long time, SQL Server.
Not exaclty. Sybase 4.21 = MS SQL server 4.21. But then they ended their
relationship (much like MS and IBM did over OS/2). This was somewhere
around the mid 90's. Since then Sybase has renamed their enterprise
product to Adaptive Server Enterprise, and versions 10, 11, 11.5 and
beyond have always been available on windows.
A few years after they split up with Microsoft, they bought the product
SQL Anywhere (forgot the firm they bought it from). It took them a few
years to make this product 100% SQL compatible with ASE. This product was
ported to some Unix platforms around that time too.
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