>My guess... Rushmore.
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>I was in the room when yag announced to the MVPs that VFP was done. He talked about trying to get everything open sourced, but the lawyers wouldn't allow it.
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>>Ah, ok.
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>>Just asking your opinion - why haven't they put the entire thing on open source? I have no opinion on the matter, just curious what would be the downside.


Ah, ok.

Here's what I wonder. MS has done some amazing things in SQL Server with the Columnstore index and Hekaton (in-memory optimized OLTP). These capabilities can speed up queries anywhere from 5-20x. I wonder if those things leverage what was in Rushmore in any way.