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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 08:20 PM EDT |
If APIs are copyrightable then perhaps Oracle is throwing stones in a glass
house. From Wikipedia:
"SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F.
Boyce in the early 1970s. This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured
English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in
IBM's original quasi-relational database management system, System R, which a
group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s."
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"In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw
the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and
developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with aspirations of selling it to the U.S.
Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies. In June
1979, Relational Software, Inc. introduced the first commercially available
implementation of SQL, Oracle V2 (Version2) for VAX computers. Oracle V2 beat
IBM's August release of the System/38 RDBMS to market by a few weeks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
Of course, back then, noone even considered trying to copyright an API.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: dacii on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 09:36 PM EDT |
L
ink They let a security hole remain unpatched for over 3 years. Not what I
consider rock solid. Nor do I think much of their other software. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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