I know Rushmore was put into the Jet database that Access uses. And the VFP cursor technology was adapted for ADO.


>When MS purchased Fox, a frequent talking point was MS wanting to use some of Rushmore for future database efforts.
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>Rushmore had bitmap index technology, and the Columnstore Index (and Vertipaq, which is making its way across several MS efforts) optimizes high cardinality column values (like foreign keys in a fact table) using some sort of bitmap as well.
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>I have no idea if Rushmore wound up playing a part in MS SQL and self-service BI offerings these days, just speculation.