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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re:RE: People what is Oracle Rdb ? NOT URGENT, ok !
Humm, that's interesting Eric. Back when I had a finger or two in Rdb the
Oracle (V4) database on the VAX cluster was much larger, faster & fault tolerant
than the Rdb one. Although I will agree that upgrading Rdb was MUCH simpler
than Oracle, but then maybe that was in part due to the legacy application that
used Rdb.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: RE: People what is Oracle Rdb ? NOT URGENT, ok ! Author: "Eric D. Pierce" <PierceED_at_csus.edu> Date: 7/18/00 2:30 PM
Bon dia Sr. Luiz !
This may surprise people that have come to Oracle in the last 5-8 years or so, but a very long time ago (10+ years?) conventional wisdom held that that Oracle ***wasn't good enough*** for large databases. (Back in those days RDBMS was sort of a "toy", "Real programmers" used COBOL/VSAM!)
But, Rdb *was* good enough (I guess because it was more platform specific, but also maybe the Rdb architects at DEC were better than Oracle's).
However, Oracle was better at marketing than DEC (*of course* you HAVE TO HAVE your database & code scale *anywhere* and run on *any* platform, right? {what? huh?} ? ? ?). Shortly after Oracle bought Rdb, new Oracle releases became known as having much better capability for large databases. Coincidence? Could the intellectual property and expertise brought in from DEC/Rdb have had *anything* to do with improvements in Oracle????? /* sarcasm */
regards,
ep
Date sent: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:49:09 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L<ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Thank you!
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> RDB is a database Oracle bought from DEC (I think in 1994).
> Runs on VAX and Alpha machines.
> Of course, since then DEC was bought by COMPAQ.
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