{"id":435,"date":"2003-12-06T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T10:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=435"},"modified":"2003-12-06T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T10:05:04","slug":"the-mind-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"The mind is a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>W<\/span>eird thing. Sometimes you remember things instantly. Sometimes you don&#8217;t.\n<\/p>\n<p>I was doing some background research on Postgres when I stumbled on the fact that MS SQL Server and Sybase SQL Server had <a href=\"http:\/\/en2.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_SQL_Server\">a common codebase<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty sure I was told of this fact a couple of years ago. I&#8217;m also pretty sure it may have been stored in an obscure cell in my brain. Why do I find myself laughing about this? Compare that entry with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sybase_SQL_Server\">Sybase&#8217;s<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;In 1993 the codevelopment licensing agreement between Microsoft and Sybase ended and the companies parted ways.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Rare twist there too: Ashton-Tate initially partnered with Microsoft and Sybase but decided to aim for the &#8216;desktop market&#8217; (can one say &#8216;desktop market&#8217; for products like DBase IV?). We all know what happened to Ashton-Tate, but if you don&#8217;t, click <a href=\"http:\/\/en2.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashton-Tate\">here<\/a> (insert Twilight Zone music).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird thing. Sometimes you remember things instantly. Sometimes you don&#8217;t. I was doing some background research on Postgres when I stumbled on the fact that MS SQL Server and Sybase SQL Server had a common codebase. I&#8217;m pretty sure I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}