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Someone needs to go through that history timeline and get rid of all the little stuff that is not of interest to the average reader. It's almost as if every former employee tried to get a shout out to the product they worked on.
- FWIW, the source for most of the information in the history section was the November/December 2001 issue of Oracle Magazine [1]. Since this information originally appeared in an Oracle owned publication, the history does tend to put a slightly glossy marketing spin on the past. Edits are most welcome... the primary reason I fleshed out this section was that it previously consisted of only two entries: one for the year Oracle was founded and one for the year Oracle bought PeopleSoft. I'm probably not the right person to make subjective edits to this section, since I have a vested interest... BrianDuff 08:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Too much arcane detail in this article: readers interested in Oracle don't need to know every building address, for example.
- They might be interested, but if the information isn't here, then they'll never know. Nohat 07:34, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Well, heck, lets include the menus in the cafeterias then. When does the detail stop? Please folks, keep the cocntent relevent. Just because you know some arcane fact doesn't mean it belongs in the encyclopedia entry. And just because I'm anon, doesn't mean I'm a vandal.- anon
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- I agree, this is perhaps not the right place for so much detail. I can add details of the menus in the restaurants if you want though :) BrianDuff 08:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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- What about Retek ?
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== Some input: Think.com is actually one program run by Oracle Education Foundation, together with another purchased program called ThinkQuest. These programs are purely non-profit, charitable ones for students from 7 to 16 year old.--Junqing.wang 07:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Junqing.Wang
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[edit] origin of Oracle name/CIA project
"March 1983: RSI rewrites Oracle in C for portability [...] The word Oracle was the name of an unfinished consulting project for the CIA where the CIA wanted to use this new SQL language that Dr. Edgar F. Codd of IBM had written a white paper about."
I don't know enough to make the edit myself, but this is poor organization. The information in the last sentence should go either in the first timeline entry that mentions the Oracle database ("version 2"), in a separate timeline entry for the CIA project, or in the body of the article.Tennin 20:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] this site..
..is a poor stupid merchandising. Its a shame for wiki in all to accept this abuse as advert-host.--217.83.119.180 10:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Database-Symbol-Style"?
The caption for the image of Oracle HQ uses the term "Database-Symbol-Style". I could find nowhere on the web that mentions "Database-Symbol-Style" except this page, and its syndications.
What does this mean? Lewisham 21:04, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
When representing a database diagrammatically (e.g. as part of a system), a circular cylinder is commonly used.--Michig 08:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My changes 3rd, 10th March 2007
On 7 March 2007 10:01 UTC, Ghepeu made a change which reverted my two changes of 3 March. My changes are here at lines 284 and 290: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oracle_Corporation&diff=113283447&oldid=112946127. I think Ghepeu's reversion of my changes was inadvertent. Isidore 13:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
