Re: need info on history of ORACLE

From: Doug Thomson <thomson_at_bluebird.fs.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 06:08:21 GMT
Message-ID: <CnvL1x.4DA_at_cardinal.fs.com>


re Oracle history,
here goes - roughly -

started by Larry Ellison & partners circa 1978

(Ellison was Univ. of Chicago math major,
   grew up in south Chicago, dropped out of college,    ended up as pgm'r at AMPEX or some such place) consulting revenue source at first
never had venture capital $$, I believe
early HQ was in Belmont, CA; now in nearby Redwood Shores

(both are in northern Silicon Valley near SFO)
decided to build relational database based on IBM's SQL

(which, remember, at first was typical IBM hodgepodge
   partly directed toward mainframe DOS (SQL/DS) then    later toward what became DB2 - did not become ANSI std till later) at some early point re-wrote RDBMS in C, not realizing

   yet that portability could become major selling point
(reminiscent of Larry's recent realization that
   his massively parallel experiments/investments in    NCUBE could become the basis for the Media Server)
(not enough to be good, you also have to be lucky)
initial success was on VAX, later Unix

please correct me, O Oracle experts. This is just a starting pt.

trivia point: I do not know of any companies Oracle has ever acquired. Anyone know any?

Doug

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