[TremendousJudge]

>It quickly killed every previous architecture

This feat was much easier to achieve when the industry was much, much smaller, and a single company mostly owned the entire business sector (who were the people that needed databases in the first place).

[marcosdumay]

Well, a single company with a huge unexplainable help from the US government.

But SQL stayed unopposed due to its qualities, not because of its iffy start.