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Re:Ellison on IBM: "In databases, they are a decade or so be... by logicalmind on Thursday January 28, 2010 @02:18PM (#1084713)
The list of Oracle claimed firsts is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database#List_of_claimed...

I don't see them claiming to have invented relational databases. Do you have a reference for that claim?

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Re:Ellison on IBM: "In databases, they are a decade or so be... by bitdiddle on Thursday January 28, 2010 @02:51PM (#1084828)
I do, but I'd have to dig it out. In one of the earlier versions of Oracle than ran on Windows 95 (arguably the last decent one :), one got a set of manuals with it, one of which was titled something like "Concepts and..." It was in there.
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