Starting Day #2
Let's go straight to the first keynote speech.
8:00am
Rich Niemiec, CEO, TUSC
Title: "How Oracle Came to Rule the Database World and Why They Will Rule the BI World"
- Everything began with an ACM paper by E. F. Codd in 1968: "A relational model of data for large shared data banks" URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=362685
- INGRES: Interactive Graphics Retrieval System, by Michael Stonebraker in 1972
- Sybase was license to Microsoft in 1992
- 1977: Oracle began as SDL (Software Development Laboratories)
- Ed Miner and Larry Ellison worked together at Ampex; Oracle was a project code name for CIA
- There was never a version 1; Larry Edison thought nobody would buy a version 1 of any software
- 1982: RSI changed its name to Oracle
- 1983: Version 3 was rewritten from PDP11 assembly language to C to create a portable code base. It is also the first 32-bit RDBMS
- 1984: Version 4 released; ported to PC to compete with DBase; first RDBMS with read consistency
- 1985: Version 5 released; support rollback; last version before Oracle's IPO
- 1986: Oracle IPO went on March 12; Microsoft went IPO on March 13; Sun went IPO on March 8
- 1987: Oracle Applications group started
- 1988: Version 6 released with total rewrite for transaction processing; PL/SQL is introduced; row-level locking
- 1992: Version 7 released with parallel query, triggers, stored procedures, and security features
- 1995: Oracle began to focus on OLAP
- 1997: Version 8i released with browser-based GUI; OWB introduced
- 2000: Version 9i released
- 2004: Version 10g released with grid technology; flashback everything (database, table, drop)
