【译文】Microsoft Access介绍之二：Omega计划

时　间:2012-08-07 09:01:39
作　者:周芳 译   ID：24526  城市：上海
摘　要:微软首次试图出售一个关系型数据库产品是在1980年代中期,当时微软取得销售R:Base的许可证。在1980年代末微软开发自己的解决方案代号为Omega（欧米茄）。
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        微软首次试图出售一个关系型数据库产品是在1980年代中期,当时微软取得销售R:Base的许可证。在1980年代末微软开发自己的解决方案代号为Omega（欧米茄）。1988年，一种数据库产品Windows和OS / 2的发展使它更坚定。它将会包括“EB“嵌入式基本语言,这将是在微软所有的应用程序里用来编写宏的语言,但直到VBA的产生才有了统一的宏语言,。欧米茄预计还会提供一个链接Microsoft SQL Server的接口。这个应用资源枯竭,有报告称,当时它只可以慢慢的在386个处理器里运行。它原计划在1990年第一季度公布,但在1989年，产品的开发计划被取消,它被改到1991年1月后完成。项目的部分后来被用于其他微软项目:Cirrus(ACCESS的研发代码)和Thunder(Visual Basic的代号,嵌入的基本引擎使用)。在ACCESS首次展示后,欧米茄项目在1992年得到数位新闻记者的认证，其中包括ACCESS一些不可用的特性。

【原文】Project Omega

Microsoft's first attempt to sell a relational database product was during the mid 1980s, when Microsoft obtained license to sell R:Base.In the late 1980s Microsoft developed its own solution codenamed Omega.It was confirmed in 1988 that a database product for Windows and OS/2 was in development.It was going to include "EB" Embedded Basic language,which was going to be the language for writing macros in all Microsoft applications, but the unification of macro languages did not happen until the introduction of VBA. Omega was also expected to provide a front end to the Microsoft SQL Server.The application was very resource-hungry, and there were reports that it was working slowly on the 386 processors that were available at the time.It was scheduled to be released in the 1st quarter of 1990,but in 1989 the development of the product was reset and it was rescheduled to be delivered no sooner than in January 1991.Parts of the project were later used for other Microsoft projects: Cirrus (codename for Access) and Thunder (codename for Visual Basic, where the Embedded Basic engine was used).After Access's premiere, the Omega project was demonstrated in 1992 to several journalists and included features that were not available in Access.