Re: Oracle History??

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:BA018A87.2D39%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
> in article FQQC9.80630$g9.227235_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com, Howard J. Rogers
at
> howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au wrote on 11/20/02 11:00 AM:
>
> > Well, I think they should, because on closer inspection of the document
Mark
> > kindly posted a link to, I discover it wasn't so perfect after all. For
a
> > start, it disagrees with Oracle's own website (the link Karsten posted)
> > about when Parallel Server was first available (it agrees with my first
> > thoughts that it was 1989, but the Oracle website says 1985).
>
> I'd take the content on oracle.com with a little bit of a grain of salt.
It
> doesn't actually say Parallel Server, it says 'Offers a parallel server
> database'
>
> It sort of all depends on what meaning you attach to 'Offers ...' and 'a
> parallel server database'
>
> It's true that some early OPS technology was available in 1985 with V5.
> However, the general consensus is 6.2 on VMS.
>
> > And its a bit
> > skimpy on detail such as 'what is the background of interMedia', which I
> > know I can get fro Tom Kyte's Expert One-on-One... the question is,
where
> > did *he* get it from, and why can't we get similar potted histories for
any
> > given product or feature?
>
> InterMedia was a term coined to cover text, video, image and audio
support.
> Text, as firstly Text*Retrieval, then Context, had been around since the
> Version 6 days. Audio and Video support was announced for Oracle7.3, for
the
> universal server wars. Text, Audio, Video and Image support became
> "interMedia" in 8i.

Yeah, I know. But this is just one product (and one whose origins are, as I say, well documented by Tom Kyte). And I have questions about the origins of lots. And it ought to be documented somewhere... as I say, there should be an archive of these things.

(And maybe there is somewhere!!)

Regards
HJR
>
> > It's a big job, but the Corporation should definitely have an archivist.
>
>
>
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> >
> > "Alex Filonov" <afilonov_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:336da121.0211200933.558b827b_at_posting.google.com...
> >> afilonov_at_yahoo.com (Alex Filonov) wrote in message
> > news:<336da121.0211192130.78afb2bf_at_posting.google.com>...
> >>> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:<D9AC9.80088$g9.225516_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> >>>> Does anyone know of a set of documentation outlining when features
> > first
> >>>> appeared in various Oracle versions? For example, I believe that
> > Parallel
> >>>> Server first made an appearance in version 5 in 1989. But I've only
> > got a
> >>>> rather dodgy source for that belief, and I'd like the donkey's
> > doo-dah's
> >>>> last word in authorative truth on the matter. Just as an example.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there such a document ('cos I can't find it if so)?
> >>>>
> >>>> Personal reminiscences are appreciated, but not quite the definitive
> > source
> >>>> I was after!
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> HJR
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, can't give references. May be couple of days later.
> >>>
> >>> Set operations: union, minus, intersect: v5
> >>>
> >>> Read-only consistency: v6. There was a white paper, I don't think it's
> > possible
> >>> to find it now. There was also an article, probably in Byte magazine
in
> > 1989(?).
> >>>
> >>> Cost-based optimizer: v7. White paper might be still available on
> > Metalink, but
> >>> I'm not sure. Need to check.
> >>
> >> No white paper on metalink.
> >>
> >> May be it's time for Oracle to open online museum? Thoughts?
> >
> >
>
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 22:11:54 CST