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MySQL's MaxDB: A work in progress (NewsForge)
NewsForge takes a
look at MaxDB. "The lineage of MaxDB goes back several years,
involves a few companies, and uses a few names. It grew out of Adabas, a
database that has been around since the 1980s. A version of Adabas was
obtained by the German software company SAP AB in the mid-1990's and
eventually rebranded as SAP DB. Displaying amazing foresight for the time,
SAP AB decided to release the source code of SAP DB under the GNU GPL in
the year 2000. Unfortunately, this event was not promoted by SAP AB, so SAP
DB languished as perhaps the most significant yet obscure Open Source
project in the community."
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MySQL's MaxDB: A work in progress (NewsForge) Posted Jan 28, 2004 13:17 UTC (Wed) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link] The German software company is named "SAP AG", where "AG" stands for"Aktiengesellschaft", a company owned by stockholders. The "AB" is correct for "MySQL AB", which is a Swedish company.
MySQL's MaxDB: A work in progress (NewsForge) Posted Jan 28, 2004 18:37 UTC (Wed) by sandy_pond (guest, #9734) [Link] All I can say is good luck with this spaghetti code from the 80's and a build system from hell that uses several different computer languages in it's source.
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