Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:12:00 -0400
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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:%Wk%c.127458$9d6.302_at_attbi_s54...
> "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > Once again, I'm goin gto lead you back to DEC Rdb.
>
> Can you supply a reference to some good reading material?
> Just those three letters don't make good food for Google.
>
>

Well, a good starting place is www.oracle.com/rdb

Oracle bought the rights to Rdb from DEC in 1994. I think they paid $100M for it, and also hired 5,000 DEC employees.

They thought that, in a few years, all the Rdb customers would be migrated over to Oracle RDBMS. They learned otherwise. It was probably a good purchase. Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 12:12:00 CDT