Re: History of Oracle 10g

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:58:25 -0800
Message-Id: <pan.2004.11.07.01.58.25.10937@cybcon.com>

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:16:32 -0800, SAP BASIS Consultant wrote:

> I searched (Both google and Oracle's Website) for a
> document describing the history of Oracle 10g (When
> it was first released as beta, when it was first
> released for general use, etc..), but I was unable
> to find anything.

If you would like to read a technical history of Oracle, pick up 'Tales of the Oak Table', available at Amazon.com, and read Dave Ensor's chapter on the history of Oracle.

Quite interesting.

For instance, the current foundations of Oracle were dictated by the 32k memory space of a PDP-11.

Jared Received on Sat Nov 06 2004 - 19:58:25 CST