Kyle Geiger, Lowell Tuttman, and Colleen Lambert O'Neal were Microsoft employees who nursed and evangelized ODBC during its infancy. Kyle's book (Inside ODBC, Microsoft Press) has more information and acknowledgements. Mike Pizzo and Murali Venkatrao represented Microsoft at international standards meetings when they weren't working on new ODBC versions.
Other significant contributors to ODBC's progress include Rowland Archer of HAHT, John Goodson of Q+E / Intersolv, Steve Weiss of DataRamp, Dave Cameron of Microsoft and Mike Satterfield and Kirk Herrington of PageAhead/Simba.
Kingsley Idehen and OpenLink Software innovated with a server-side ODBC architecture. Sy Danberg of SYWARE contributed the famous Dr. DeeBee Tools for developers. Brian Vink and associates (Watcom/Powersoft/Sybase) built the first level 2 ODBC driver.
The evolution of the SQL-92 standard would not have been possible without persons participating in consortia and standards bodies such as ANSI, ISO, X/Open and SQL Access Group. Kudos to Jim Melton (Sybase), Frank Pellow (IBM) and Paul Cotton (IBM) for their efforts on the SQL CLI standard. Roger Sippl (Visigenic/INPRISE) chaired X/Open during the process of creating a final version of the CLI.
Whose names pop up when the subject is ODBC expertise? The list includes Ronald Laeremans (Tools and Solutions, NV), Lee Fesperman (FFE Software), Charles McDevitt (NCR), Rob Macdonald (Information Systems Associates, Ltd.), Mark Edwards (OpenLink), Robert Houben (Liberty Software) and Dale Hunscher (South Wind Designs, Inc.).
last revision: December 12, 1998