The first months after the deal was done, there was much talk inside Oracle of merging the products. This would be done by merging OCI and the Rdb equivalent, then merging the two SQL implementations, etc. I'm happy to be able to tell you all that the plan was dropped. Instead they started at the top of the stack and made SQL*Net and other such things work across. That was all they needed.
And yeah, the two databases are getting products and ideas from each other. I might even think I remember that the Change Management Pack was delivered by the New England Development Center? I'm not sure.
Mogens
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I think that was exactly their strategy when they aquired RDB, but I think Oracle underestimated how much RDB customers would resist losing RDB. You can't tick off customers of that magnitude who are willing to spend big $$$ for the reliability and performance of RDB, which is tough to match. I think Oracle's done a decent job of continuing to develop RDB. Its even picked up a few nice features from Oracle RDBMS like role based secutiry and logminer. It definitely has given more than it got though - partitioning, parallel query ...
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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
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