Re: Oracle History??

"Mark D Powell" <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com> wrote in message news:2687bb95.0211191932.18fddb4d_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:<D9AC9.80088$g9.225516_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> > Does anyone know of a set of documentation outlining when features first
> > appeared in various Oracle versions? For example, I believe that
Parallel
> > Server first made an appearance in version 5 in 1989. But I've only got
a
> > rather dodgy source for that belief, and I'd like the donkey's doo-dah's
> > last word in authorative truth on the matter. Just as an example.
> >
> > Is there such a document ('cos I can't find it if so)?
> >
> > Personal reminiscences are appreciated, but not quite the definitive
source
> > I was after!
> >
> > Cheers
> > HJR
>
> And I thought OPS was new with version 7.0. Maybe it was just our
> platform as we couldn't run it as version 6, but had to wait till
> after we upgraded on the same equipment.
>

(This is exactly why I would like to know these things for real!).

Turns out it was first available in 1985. God knows what version that would have been!!

Those were Windows 1.0 days, weren't they?! Gawd....

Cheers,
HJR
> -- Mark D Powell --
Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 22:04:38 CST