Re: Book on Oracle Corporation

I'm sure it's interesting.
However, I suspect it's probably a good trash Oracle book so ....maybe you should post it on the Informix group...they would love it. In terms of releasing software before ready....I can't think of a software company that really doesn't do that. It's the business. In terms of "blaming myself" for not making Oracle work the way it should, well, again what software is guaranteed to work 100% perfectly...after all it is developed by humans.
I honestly don't have too many problems with Oracle that aren't due to something I have missed myself, and there are just two of us running multi-gigabyte - terabyte sized databases on complex Sun hardware and clustering. (thus dispelling the myth about how many Oracle Dba's does it take to .....). However, maybe I will check the book out to get a good laugh about that, eh, "wonderful???" <G> man Larry Ellison -- I'm sure he's flattered by the book...hahahahah

DRODRIGU1 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I checked this book out of the library about the history of the Oracle
> Corporation. It is titled "The Difference Between God And Larry Ellison*,
> Inside Oracle Corporation" by Mike Wilson, William and Morrow & Co, Inc., New
> York, 1997
>
> * God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
>
> It is a very interesting account of how this company came to be and the person
> who built this multi-billion company from scratch. Which Company was the first
> to introduce a relational database (it was IBM). How the name Oracle was
> adopted (from a CIA classified project). How in its race to grab market share
> Oracle released software that was far from finished (heck, and it still does).
> Once you read this book you will stop blaming yourself for not making Oracle
> work as the manuals say. Anyway, I think you will find it quite interesting.
>
> Dave
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT