RE: People what is Oracle Rdb ? NOT URGENT, ok !

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:06:06 -0000
Message-Id: <10562.112349@fatcity.com>

Hi,

For further information on Rdb refer to http://www.oracle.com/rdb/

There is also a mailing list hosted by and archived at http://www.jcc.com/

It runs under VMS on both Alphas & VAXs.

There is also a "workbench" version available for NT that can be downloaded from Technet.

Regards,
Bruce Reardon

Analyst / Programmer
Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay)
mailto:bruce.reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:PierceED_at_csus.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 8:30
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: People what is Oracle Rdb ? NOT URGENT, ok !

Bon dia Sr. Luiz !

This may surprise people that have come to Oracle in the last 5-8 years or so, but a very long time ago (10+ years?) conventional wisdom held that that Oracle ***wasn't good enough*** for large databases. (Back in those days RDBMS was sort of a "toy", "Real programmers" used COBOL/VSAM!)

But, Rdb *was* good enough (I guess because it was more platform specific, but also maybe the Rdb architects at DEC were better than Oracle's).

However, Oracle was better at marketing than DEC (*of course* you HAVE TO HAVE your database & code scale *anywhere* and run on *any* platform, right? {what? huh?} ? ? ?). Shortly after Oracle bought Rdb, new Oracle releases became known as having much better capability for large databases. Coincidence? Could the intellectual property and expertise brought in from DEC/Rdb have had *anything* to do with improvements in Oracle????? /* sarcasm */

regards,
ep

Date sent:      	Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:49:09 -0800
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> Thank you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 1:26 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> RDB is a database Oracle bought from DEC (I think in 1994).
> Runs on VAX and Alpha machines.
> Of course, since then DEC was bought by COMPAQ.

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