Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) workshop : financing
This session examines the business development and early financing of three of the independent software companies which developed and marketed relational database management systems (RDBMS) products. The individuals in the session represented Informix, Oracle, and Sybase. The participants explained the beginnings of each company, the financing needed to market various products, and they discussed the key people involved in company management and marketing. The discussion also includes insights into early marketing strategies and sales campaigns and the movement of personnel between companies in the early years of the industry.
Item Details
- Date
- 2007-06-12 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702564
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Stu Schuster (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Bob MacDonald (Participant)
Roger Sippl (Participant)
Mark Hoffman (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Moderator)
Douglas Jerger (Editor)
Thomas Haigh (Participant) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 35 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4069.2007
- Subject
- Oracle Corporation, Informix Corporation, IBM DB2, UNIX, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SQL, Ingres Corporation, Value Added Reseller (VAR), Kleiner Perkins, Sybase
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection