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Very
interesting. I will start a virtual campfire.
<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Mogens Nørgaard
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:15
PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re:
International User CommunityWho knows? I know for at fact
that Oracle UK sold Oracle 5 to Ghadaffi (or however his name is
spelled) back in the 80's. They also had a lively trade with South Africa -
known back then as "South England"... rumor has it, though, that - due to
stuff happening high over Lockerbie - Oracle UK thought they'd better not
invoice the guy in the tent in the desert.So somewhere there might
still be a 5.1.22 running some important Libyan military stuff.Then
there's the story of East Germany and the re-union. When the Wall came
down Oracle West Germany found that a certain East German conglomorate (sp?)
based in Dresden had 30+ Oracle folks working there, supporting 100 or 200
Oracle 5 installations throughout East Germany. Instead of just shooting
everyone in sight, Oracle West Germany hired the 30+ folks, opened an official
office in Dresden, legalized all the installations, upgraded them to version
6, then to version 7 - and then started charging whatever little or much they
could afford. I still admire the guys in Oracle West Germany for that
approach. Way to go.Of course I have also spoken to excellent people
from Oracle Russia who had worked with Oracle version 1 - respect! One of the
things we shouldn't forget is that the Italians sold Oracle 5.1.22 to the
Soviet Union when it was highly illegal to do so. They also sold these
Olivette B?4?-something Unix computers, promised that Oracle version 5 worked
splendidly with the Cyrillic alphabet - and then got the Hell out.
Well, Oracle version 5 hardly worked with any language, but certainly
not with the Cyrillic alphabet. When the Soviets discovered it they couldn't
do anything. They had paid, by the way, in hard currency the excellent price
of $25 or $30 Million, but it was also an illegal deal under the CoCom
agreements, so they couldn't do anything officially about it.Instead,
the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Moscow hacked the code
and actually made it work with the Cyrillic alphabet. No wonder there are many
excellent Russian Oracle people around. Ah, so many good stories to be
told over the campfire and over a bottle or two of
something.MogensSeefelt, Beth wrote:
Were'nt US
companies forbidden to do business with Iraq in 98-99?
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When I worked for Oracle back in
1998-99 Oracle had an office in the capitol of Iraq as I
recall.
Ken Janusz, CPIM
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Richard
Ji
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I thought Iran registered it first.
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<SPAN
class=250593515-09062003>IOUG? Is that an "Iraqi Oracle User Group"?
Boy, thing are developing fast!
Mladen Gogala <FONT face=Arial
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<FONT face=Tahoma
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Monday, June 09, 2003 12:04 PMTo: Multiple recipients of
list ORACLE-LSubject: International User
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While not trying to sound like this is coming off like
a shameless plug, because it isn't... I have
an Apps book going to publisher in a couple weeks and they want to do
PR. To that end, they have asked me to fill out a fairly
extensive paper on who might ever care about such a book... including
International Organizations they might push out PR stuff
to.
Thanks to Rachel, I got a list of <FONT
size=2>IOUG OAUG <FONT
size=2>UKOUG EOUG <FONT
size=2>APOUG and <FONT
size=2>ODTUG
Anyone know any others? This wasn't exaclty the
kind of reasearch I was planning on... =) <FONT
size=2>. Thanks in advance for any help and...
sorry Jared for the questionable content.
April
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