Usage of the database "Oracle" vs. company "Oracle"

From: Barry Bulsara <bbulsara23_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:47:28 -0700
Message-ID: <1185652048.479588.4000@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

Hi, I am writing a document and normally I wouldn't give a second thought to saying such and such will run using a database such as Oracle.

It occurred to me that Oracle is the name of the company, and that an Oracle database doesn't differentiate between what you and I think of daily as Oracle (eg. 9i, 10g, or "launched" but not "released" 11g), and Oracle Times Ten or Oracle Database Lite or Oracle Berkeley DB or some other database Oracle provides that I have forgotton about.

Does just shorthand "Oracle" still refer to say 10g. I don't want to write Oracle 10g because then I am specifying a version which opens a can of worms elsewhere.

Ideas anyone.

Thank you
Barry Received on Sat Jul 28 2007 - 14:47:28 CDT