<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You’re thinking of Sybase. That’s where the name “SqlServer” came from. Sybase sold a source code license to Microsoft that included the right to use the name.<div><br></div><div>(I was a developer at Sybase in the VMS group in the late 1980s and early 1990s)</div><div><br></div><div>Jon <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 13, 2023, at 1:35 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Matt - I never had direct (user) experience with it. Ireleases. Also, I do not remember if LPI-Colbol was attached to a specific DB implementation or not. In those days, there were a number of them besides Ingres - Informix, IBM's DB2, and one that started with an S - which later was sold to Microsoft to become SQL-server to name a few, and that may have been part of it. </div></div>
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