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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (13580)	12/29/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

At the time of the 'divorce' MSFT had rights to the Sybase 4.9 code line, Sybase had made major changes in System 10. One of the reasons Sybase wanted to close the deal quickly was that they would have been forced to give MSFT the 10 codeline if they did another rev. At the time, Sybase had more than 1600 engineers doing database development, MSFT had less than 30 people in the database group. Given that starting point, it would have been amazing if MSFT had been able to keep pace. Since that time MSFT has actually developed a pretty decent database team but their product is still strongly derivative of the Sybase 4.9 code line.