Artifact Details

Description

Press release to provide background on a more complex software system arrangement:
* Microsoft and Ashton-Tate announced SQL Server, a relational database server software product for local area networks.
* SQL Server runs on top of OS/2 based networks includingMS OS/2 LAN Manager and IBM OS/2 LAN Server.
* The combination of OS/2, SQL Server and either the MS OS/2 LAN Manager or the IBM OS/2 LAN Server creates a rich open platform for workgroup applications.
* MS OS/2 LAN Manager is the networking server software from Microsoft that complements OS/2.
* In November, 1987, IBM announced the OS/2 LAN Server. This software product incorporates key MS(R) LAN networking technology licensed from Microsoft, and provides OS/2-based server functions to OS/2 Extended Edition workstations. IBM OS/2 LAN Server incorporates MS LAN Server technology, and requires the IBM OS/2 Extended Edition

Donated by Ed Esber. 6 scanned pages.

Date

1988-01

Publisher

Microsoft Corporation

Identifying Numbers

Other number

doc-4463fc64b3f98

Deprecated ITCHP Number

Extent

6 p.

Category

Press release

Collection Title

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

Lot Number

X7847.2017