Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:29:48 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn_at_garlic.com> wrote:

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>DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes:
>> Given that those other products didn't exist when Oracle was created.
>> And given that those that have worked with Oracle for almost 20 years
>> have a large volume of working code they don't want broken. And given
>> that it really doesn't matter ... what's your point other than whining?
>
>there is this from another thread in this n.g. (circa 1976, MDS)
>http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#30 Network databases
>
>the folklore is that this fed gov. agency funded a company (had large
>bldg. just west of 101 in burlingame) to do something called Oracle
>for pdp11 and vm370 platforms (both system/r and ingres were already
>in progress ... system/r also having been done on vm370 platform).
>
>later some of the people founded a company called SDL (1977) changing
>to RSI (1979) to commercialize Oracle ... first releasing the pdp11
>and then the vm370 versions. They later changed the company name to be
>the same as the product name.
>
>In the late 80s, they were running into cash flow problems and there
>were several press releases about selling big portion of the company
>to a large far east steel company. Shortly after the announcements,
>they announced a corporate-wide license with a large international oil
>company ... and were able to back out of the deal with the steel
>company (we subsequently visited the oil company corporate hdqtrs in
>europe and they commented corporate-wide license sometimes can be not
>such a good thing ... once the check is written, you can loose the
>interest of the local marketing and support people).

ISTR a DBMS with Fortran bindings called Total?

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