Microsoft, Sybase, and Ashton-Tate Partnership Announcement

Microsoft, Sybase, and Ashton-Tate announced a joint venture to bring Sybase's SQL Server to the OS/2 operating system.

Significance

This marked Microsoft's official entry into the relational database market and laid the foundation for what would become SQL Server.

Key facts

Date
1987-03-09
Type
collaboration
Location
Redmond, Washington, USA