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RE: Re[2]: [sqr-users] SQR History
Sorry you're bored, Bob. I find it fascinating.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob.Melosi@edwardjones.com [mailto:Bob.Melosi@edwardjones.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:58 AM
To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
Subject: Re[2]: [sqr-users] SQR History
ZZZZZZZ, this is getting kind of like the foreigners stealing our jobs, OFF
TOPIC.
>
>
> 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
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > sqr-users mailing list
> > > sqr-users@sqrug.org
> > > http://www.sqrug.org/mailman/listinfo/sqr-users
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ray Ontko rayo@ontko.com Phone 1.765.935.4283 Fax 1.765.962.9788
> > Ray Ontko & Co. Software Consulting Services http://www.ontko.com/
> >
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