(mysql.info.gz) MaxDB History

 
 17.1 History of MaxDB
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 The  history of SAP DB goes back to the early 1980s when it was
 developed as a commercial product (Adabas). The database has changed
 names several times since then. When SAP AG, a company based in
 Walldorf, Germany, took over the development of that database system,
 it was called SAP DB.
 
 SAP developed that database system to serve as a storage system for all
 heavy-duty SAP applications, namely R/3. SAP DB was meant to provide an
 alternative to third-party database systems such as Oracle, Microsoft
 SQL Server, and DB2 by IBM. In October 2000, SAP AG released SAP DB
 under the GNU GPL license ( GPL license), thus making it Open
 Source software. In October 2003, more than 2,000 customers of SAP AG
 were using SAP DB as their main database system, and more than another
 2,000 customers were using it as a separate database system besides
 their main database, as part of the APO/LiveCache solution.
 
 In May 2003, a technology partnership was formed between MySQL AB and
 SAP AG. That partnership entitles MySQL AB to further develop SAP DB,
 rename it, and sell commercial licenses of the renamed SAP DB to
 customers who do not want to be bound to the restrictions imposed on
 them when using that database system under the GNU GPL ( GPL
 license). In August 2003, SAP DB was renamed MaxDB by MySQL AB.
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