Re: Oracle invented the RDBMS?

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:31:03 +1000
Message-ID: <7f4qbv$p9c$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au>

<markp7832_at_my-dejanews.com> wrote in message news:7f28h8$93n$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com...
> Looks like poor proof reading. I believe that Oracle was the first
> commercial version of an rdbms released on the market, but Dr. Codd invented
> relational database theory along with his relational algebra definition. I
> think there was a non-commercial rdbms released before Oracle. Maybe the SQL
> database released under IBM's VM (CMS) OS. Dr. Codd also worked for IBM at
> the time he published his early papers on relational database theory. -- Mark

FWIW. the first one I remember was SQL/DS for DOS/VS on IBM 370 systems. I received the glossies for this one in mid-1977.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au
http://www.acay.com.au/~nsouto/welcome.htm Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 08:31:03 CDT