Re: RE: Re[2]: [sqr-users] SQR History

[Bob.Melosi@edwardjones.com]

Then I look forward to the history of SQR user's group.  Send me the URL.

> 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
> > > > 
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> > > 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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