Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

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).

minor reference with some historical details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_database

more recent posting on some of the technology (distributed lock manager work, from comp.arch)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#40 clusters vs shared-memory

old reference to ha/cmp activity w/oracle: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

one of the people in the referenced meeting said that they had handled the majority of the code transfer from endicott/sqlds to stl for db2.

two of the other people in the referenced meeting later showed up in a small startup where they were responsible for something called a commerce server

some topic drift with tie-in between oracle and electronic commerce http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn2 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn3

there use to be this joke about there actually only being 200 people in the industry ... the same people just kept showing up in different places.

long ago and far away email from spring 1980 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#40

referencing oracle announcement for vm370

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