Re: Oracle History??

From: Martin Doherty <martin.doherty_at_elcaro.moc>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:47:08 -0800
Message-ID: <vcfD9.18$mN5.158@news.oracle.com>

I can't say if it is the same one, but we do have a grand piano in the foyer of 300 Oracle Parkway!

Nuno Souto wrote:

>Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:19:44 GMT, Mark Townsend said (and I quote):
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>>http://www.osborne.com/products/0072192798/0072192798_ch01.pdf
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>>I think Ken Jacobs at least reviewed this (I'll check tomorrow)
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>Yup, this one sounds just about right with my memory too.
>The only if is the reference to SQL*Star in V5 being the first
>distributed database attempt by Oracle. In V4.1.4 for DOS there was a
>small experimental program for moving data using SQL between DOS and VMS,
>via a serial RS-232 connection.
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>Hehehe! Who here was ever at 20 Davis Drive? Lovely little white
>building. I spent two weeks there in January 1988, for the V6 alfa roll-
>out. The grand piano was the main feature of the entrance hall at the
>time. I'm told Larry moved it to Oracle Parkway when they moved.
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>BTW, Oracle Parkway was built on the site of the old Marine World where
>the orcas used to do their show. Before they moved the whole
>"fishy" thing to North of SF.
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