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IBM can sue Oracle for SQL API? - Why bother ? | 388 comments | Create New Account

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IBM can sue Oracle for SQL API?

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 10:26 PM EDT

REALLY!

SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F.
Boyce in the early 1970s.

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100 billion sounds about right. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 10:32 PM EDT
- and a restraining order... - Authored by: mtew on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 12:38 AM EDT
- 100 billion sounds about right. - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 05:41 AM EDT
  - IBM would have to rationalise down to the most effective database - Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 06:33 AM EDT
  - Why? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:38 AM EDT

IBM can sue Oracle for SQL API? - Why bother ?

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 10:39 PM EDT

Only if they wanted a black eye. They turned it loose a long time ago to ANSI (1986) and ISO (1987).

See : SQL (Wikipedia article)

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Using Oracle's Theory, IBM Can Recapture SQL - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 11:48 PM EDT
- Yes, that is the important message. - Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 06:35 AM EDT
  - I believe POSIX was government sponsored - Authored by: jesse on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 06:57 AM EDT
    - I believe POSIX was government sponsored - Authored by: jjs on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 07:57 AM EDT
      - IIRC IEEE standards are paided-for. ...nt - Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 08:47 AM EDT
        Are you saying that contributors can sue the government for their API use? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 09:26 AM EDT
        Not so - Authored by: celtic_hackr on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 11:46 AM EDT
No they didn't - Authored by: celtic_hackr on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 11:38 AM EDT
- Awesome. If this goes south Google buys IBM/MIT copyrights and sues Oracle for trillions. n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 12:17 PM EDT
- Get a Clue - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 11:19 AM EDT

If oracle win, they could be entering a world of pain

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 06:46 AM EDT

Of course, in a sane world, they should be safe because there is no sane way
they could win.

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