Re: need info on history of ORACLE
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
-- ======================================================== Doug Thomson Fourth Shift / JIT thomson_at_fs.com 7900 International Drive (612) 851-1471 Minneapolis, MN 55425 USAReceived on Thu Apr 07 1994 - 08:08:21 CEST