Re: [sqr-users] SQR History

[<jwillson@dssltd.com>]

Ray, modestly left off he and his company's contributions to the push for 
enhancements of SQR.  I think an application history would also be 
interesting.  Especially sqr product numbers/releases and features with first 
or creative use of the feature.
However, I thought that SQR was originally a D.O.D. specification and that 
Israel Stern (sp?) and Peter Burton then created the language for that spec.

Anyone know?

John Willson

Ray Ontko <rayo@ontko.com> said:

> Denise, et al,
> 
> Peter Burton can probably fill in some details, and I don't know the
> exact dates, but here's what I know:
> 
> SQ Software created SQR in the mid 1980s.  They had a marketing
> agreement with D & N systems (which changed its name to SQL Solutions,
> and was later acquired by Sybase).
> 
> Sybase purchased SQ Software in the early 1990s.  To avoid competing
> directly with Oracle, Sybase had a marketing and development agreement
> with MITI for the Oracle versions of the product.
> 
> MITI acquired the full rights to SQR in the mid 1990s.  MITI later
> changed its name to SQRiBE Technologies.
> 
> Brio Technologies acquired SQRiBE in August, 1999.  Brio Technologies
> later changed its name to Brio Software.
> 
> Brio licensed the source code to Peoplesoft sometime around 2000.
> 
> Hyperion Software acquired Brio Software in October, 2003.
> 
> That's the rough outline of the history of the product, as I 
> recall it.  I'd like to fill in the exact dates, legal
> names and product names to give a more complete history.
> 
> Have I left out any important milestones?
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:00:50AM -0500, White, Denise wrote:
> > Interesting, Dave!  Thanks for the history!
> > 
> > Since you have the version 1 manuals, when was SQR first introduced, and 
by what company?  The guy with the 'bad attitude' was also quite scornful of 
my suggestion that MITI had originated SQR and said it was around long before 
that company was.  I know it was MITI, then SQRibe, then Brio (and now 
Hyperion?), but was it something else before that?  I'm afraid I haven't held 
onto any of my manuals prior to version 4, but I think I started with version 
2 (1994).  As this is the SQR users group, hearing the history of the product 
is quite interesting!
> > 
> > Denise M. White
> > Sr. Software Engineer
> > Vicor 
> > --__--__--
> > 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:42:45 -0800
> > To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
> > From: David Donnelly <Dave@isisbio.com>
> > Subject: [sqr-users] Hyphen history
> > Reply-To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
> > 
> > Ever wonder why that hyphen thing  (#count-1) is the way it is?
> > 
> > In its infancy, SQR didn't have expressions.  There was no "let" 
statement, 
> > and "if" could only have simple expressions with one relation. These were 
> > added in version 2, in 1990.  At one point, at least, there were error 
> > messages that SQR had made an assumption about whether you meant it to be 
a 
> > variable or an expression.  Either that warning was removed, or I finally 
> > got out of the habit of using hyphens in variable names.
> > 
> > Version 2 also brought dynamic variables, compiler directives, and 
removed 
> > the need to put a hyphen at the end of the line if a statement continued 
to 
> > the next line.
> > 
> > I still have the version 1 manuals.  We've sure come a long way.  The 
Brio 
> > guy with the bad attitude was probably in third grade when SQR was 
launched.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
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