Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) workshop : the later years
<p>The relational database pioneers in attendance discussed the evolution of the industry from the late 1980s through the end of the 1990s. They covered a wide range of subjects including other companies in the relational database business, the growth of each of the companies, the problems that they ran into and how the use of relational databases migrated from decision support to transaction processing. They talked about the reasons for the dramatic growth that took place and how each of the companies handled this growth and the subsequent competition. They described the mergers and acquisitions that took place and who is remaining standing in the marketplace. They discussed the impact of Microsoft entering the market and the impact of PCs, the Internet and the World Wide Web. They speculated on what would be happening in the future in terms of technologies and applications.</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2007-06-12 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102701921
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Don Haderle (Participant)
Chris J. Date (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Douglas Jerger (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant)
Michael Mahoney (Historian)
Marilyn Bohl (Participant)
Mark Hoffman (Participant)
Robert MacDonald (Interviewee)
Roger Sippl (Participant)
Jan Phillips (Participant)
Paul Butterworth (Participant)
Sharon Codd (Participant)
Roy Harrington (Participant)
Jerry Held (Participant)
Ken Jacobs (Participant)
Bruce Lindsay (Participant)
Jim Strickland (Participant)
Moshe Zloof (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Stu Schuster (Participant)
Michael W. Blasgen (Editor)
Donald Chamberlin (Participant)
Lawrence (Larry) Rowe (Participant)
Peter G. Capek (Historian)
Michael W. Blasgen (Participant) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 40 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4069.2007
- Subject
- SQL Server, SAP, Informix, IBM DB2, Internet, IMS, Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Computer Associates, Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft Corporation
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection