Nicolai,
Thank you very much. Very interesting paper.
mkb
- Nicolai Tufar <ntufar_at_apb.com.tr> wrote:
> Oracle was the first commercial Realtional Database
> Management System.
> And it was relational from day one (version two :),
> and it was built with
> relational theory in mind. IBM was the first to
> implement RDBMS though.
> It was called System R, or something, later it
> became known as DB2.
>
> Take a look at this paper:
>
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html
>
> Very fascinating reading. They tell how Larry was
> trying to get tle list
> of DB2 error codes so that Oracle would be
> compatible with it.
> Also a bit about Larry luring IBM engeneers
> promising that they
> would become millionares with Oracle. He was right.
>
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