>From memory: Many moons ago, DEC sold RDB off to Oracle. RDB shops were told by Oracle that their license/maintence fees would double or triple for RDB in an effort to migrate them to Oracle. Many said "bite me". In the meantime, Oracle took much of the cool stuff from RDB and incorporated it into Oracle DB. I don't remember specific features anymore, but the combination gave us Oracle7.
One of the best features that Oracle Corp declined to migrate is RDB's concept of SQLMODs. SQLMODs are a language-independant module of your SQL whose SQL routines are called by your 3GL (COBOL, BASIC, C, FORTRAN, etc). All that's needed is a separate "compiler" to create an object module from the SQLMOD. Then that SQLMOD can be linked with your 3GL object mod to create the .EXE. Brilliant! Instead, we're left with Oracle's icky language-specific pre-compilers. Blecchh. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:25 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Oracle ambushes Peoplesoft with $5.1bn bid > > > RDB was developed by DEC and was purchased by Oracle. When I > 1ast saw it in depth 10 years ago it wqas quite nice. From > what I also understand that the Cost Based Optimizer from 8i > and on was part of RDB replacing the 7i Oracle developed version. > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:40 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > And what exactly is RDB to Oracle RDBMS? Predecessor? > > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > Phone:(203) 459-6855 > Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:04 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > What's really interesting is the quote from Larry indicating > that PeopleSoft will be to Oracle Apps what RDB is to Oracle RDBMS. > > Take all the goodies, no development on the purchased technology. > > Not sure if it appears in this arcticle, I saw it on Zdnet. > > Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
