Re: Oracle History??

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 22 Nov 2002 17:27:21 -0800
Message-ID: <91884734.0211221727.cba3d32@posting.google.com>

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<WSHC9.80398$g9.226171_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> Looks perfect, Mark. Thanks so much.
>
> I'd thank Richard, too, of course, but the signal to noise (ie, Oracle to
> Bowie) ratio was too high to make much sense of it all. ;-)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068816353X/qid=1038014234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5341632-1172907?v=glance&s=books

>
> Regards
> HJR
>
> "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:BA00777C.2C1C%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
> >
> > http://www.osborne.com/products/0072192798/0072192798_ch01.pdf

Supply _Change_ Management? Don't they mean Supply _Chain_ Management?

Also, they put in qualifiers, like "the first dbms to work on Mainframes and Minicomputers," and "the first SQL" whatever, as if that is some kind of great thing. In the early to mid '80s there were several superior languages to SQL, and Oracle was by no means the best system for any particular purpose. Like IBM, the greatness, if you want to call it that, was in the marketing and financials. So what if Star could join db's in New York and SF - in the mid-80's, I saw a language that could join between different DBMS's!

Harumph.

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Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 19:27:21 CST