Re: Why Oracle is called Oracle
From: Charles Schultz <sacrophyte_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 15:51:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CAPZQniX3D8r-6RssdRbCgCAoGFp-kXni4_bJBKX1pk98S5gN8w_at_mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 15:51:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CAPZQniX3D8r-6RssdRbCgCAoGFp-kXni4_bJBKX1pk98S5gN8w_at_mail.gmail.com>
I think Wolfram Alpha is already going down that path:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/TuringMachines.html
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Robert Freeman <rfreeman_at_businessolver.com> wrote:
> I am sure that we have all heard that Oracle started with a secret project
> called Oracle… but why is the name Oracle really applicable to this RDBMS?
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> How about this as a suggestion:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine
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> Perhaps here, we have an answer to the question, why does Oracle have
> everything in it, including the kitchen sink.
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> What better way to be a true black box than to include the kitchen sink… J
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-- Charles Schultz -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Jun 03 2016 - 22:51:08 CEST