Re: History of Oracle 10g

From: SAP BASIS Consultant <basis_consultant_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 8 Nov 2004 14:07:29 -0800
Message-ID: <dd2036f3.0411081407.57306fff@posting.google.com>

"Jared Still" <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.07.01.58.25.10937_at_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

Thanks to all for posting. So is the general consensus with the person who posted that 10g was generally available for customer use around the beginning of 2004?

Would you hesistate in recommending it for a small (20GB-30GB) Win2003 data warehouse?

SAP BASIS Consultant Received on Mon Nov 08 2004 - 16:07:29 CST