>It's possible. I have no idea.
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>>Ah, ok.
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>>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.
That would be my only guess - that some of capabilities in Rushmore were used in part for what's gone into SQL Server over the last few releases. Pure guess on my part.