This is an excerpt from an oracle book
Oracle Will Be First
If you haven’t seen the “Oracle Firsts” on oracle.com, I’ve listed them here so that I can add a couple of notes from Oracle’s past to what I believe is a compelling vision in the Oracle future. Oracle will be the leader throughout the Information Age not only because they create the “bend in the road,” but they’re also willing to turn willingly when the road bends unexpectedly. Unlike Microsoft, they include Java to its fullest extent, embracing volumes of developers. Unlike IBM, they bring in every hardware solution, driving scalability to fruition and bringing choices to their customers. They embrace Linux for the future that it will bring while driving information to the Web with relentless force. They continue to support SAP and Microsoft while courting the Open Source community. I remember building the first Oracle client-server application with Brad Brown and Joe Trezzo when we were at Oracle in 1987. We wondered why it took so long for others to follow. Now, I just look at Oracle firsts and know that others will follow (in time), but I like to be part of the leading edge. Consider these Oracle firsts and get ready for a much-accelerated future:
■ First commercial RDBMS
■ First 32-bit database
■ First database with read consistency
■ First client-server database
■ First SMP database
■ First 64-bit RDBMS
■ First Web database
■ First database with Native Java Support
■ First commercial RDBMS ported to Linux
■ First database with XML
■ First database with Real Application Clusters (RAC)
■ First True Grid database
■ Free Oracle Database (Oracle Express Edition)
■ Unbreakable Linux Support
