You’re thinking of Sybase. That’s where the name “SqlServer” came from. Sybase sold a source code license to Microsoft that included the right to use the name.

(I was a developer at Sybase in the VMS group in the late 1980s and early 1990s)

Jon 

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> On Jul 13, 2023, at 1:35 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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> Matt - I never had direct (user) experience with it.  Ireleases. Also, I do not remember if LPI-Colbol was attached to a specific DB implementation or not.  In those days, there were a number of them besides Ingres - Informix, IBM's DB2, and one that started with an S - which later was sold to Microsoft to become SQL-server to name a few, and that may have been part of it.