Michel,

It's a fake anniversary.

MSFT has been involved with SQL Server for around 15 years or so.

Information Week recently published an article on this anniversary at http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021114S0021. Quoting the article: "Microsoft got into the relational database market with Sybase's help back in 1987, when it negotiated the right to co-develop and resell Sybase's system. The deal ended after seven years, and Microsoft took over full-time development of its own version of the platform."

You tell me how you get a 10-year anniversary out of this...

Bill Anderson

>Is this because Hugh initiated the same for Visual FoxPro or that is simply a coincidence?
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/default.asp