Artifact Details

Date

2007-06-12

Blasgen, Michael W., Participant; Editor

Bohl, Marilyn, Participant

Butterworth, Paul, Participant

Capek, Peter G., Historian

Chamberlin, Donald, Participant

Codd, Sharon, Participant

Date, Chris J., Participant

Grad, Burt, Moderator; Participant

Haderle, Don, Participant

Haigh, Thomas, Historian

Harrington, Roy, Participant

Held, Jerry, Participant

Hoffman, Mark, Participant

Humphries, Mike, Participant

Jacobs, Ken, Participant

Jerger, Douglas, Participant

Johnson, Luanne, Participant

Lindsay, Bruce, Participant

MacDonald, Robert, Interviewee

Mahoney, Michael, Historian

Phillips, Jan, Participant

Rowe, Lawrence (Larry), Participant

Schuster, Stu, Participant

Sippl, Roger, Participant

Strickland, Jim, Participant

Zloof, Moshe, Participant

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, California

40 p.

Description

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.

Category

Transcription

Subject

ASK; Computer Associates; IBM DB2; Illustra; IMS; Informix; Ingres Corporation; International sales; Internet; Microsoft Corporation; Non-relational databases; Oracle; Relational Database Systems, Inc. (RDS); SAP; SQL Server; Sybase; University relations; XML

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X4069.2007

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