[thelist] "SQL Server developers face huge royalty bills. How many, how much?"

Hugh Blair hblair at hotfootmail.com
Thu Feb 20 23:34:06 CST 2003


"A Washington court ruling could see SQL Server developers
liable for millions of dollars in licensing fees.

The judgment concerns a contract dispute between Timeline
Inc. and Microsoft, over three patents relating to datamarts.
In Microsoft's interpretration of its licence with Timeline,
published in a press release in July 1999, "all users of
Microsoft SQL Server 7, Office 2000 and other Microsoft
products that utilize this type of technology are
unencumbered by Timeline's patents."

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29419.html

--
   Hugh




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