Nicolai,

Thank you very much.  Very interesting paper.

mkb

--- Nicolai Tufar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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