Natural Progression of the Database and the history of Oracle

Larry Ellison (1944) according to Forbes.com is the sixth richest person in the world worth $28 Billion Dollars and is the Co founder of Oracle Corporation. Oracle is a database originally designed for the CIA. Larry Ellison conceived in New York schooled and graduated in Chicago. Ellison in the seventies was inspired by Edgar F Codd's (1923-2003) academic paper "A relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". During the nineties Oracle hit financial law suits due to an error made declaring cash and revenues, this opened the way for companies like Structured Queried Language (SQL) and DB2 to grow with Linux style open source languages. Business companies Microsoft, Informix, Sybase grew and eventually dominated and developed mid range systems and micro computers (third generation computers). Oracle for three years in the start of the 1990's struggled to keep up and by 1993- 94 Silicone Valley noticed the rise of Oracle thanks to challenging court cases and reinstating of company earnings. Ellison also owns large shares in NetSuite and Quark Biotechnology Inc.

He is also friends with the past CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Steve no longer works for Apple. He has a license to fly planes, has been married four times and just recently purchase a mansion previously owned by German Baroness and Countess Astor worth over $10.5 million. He also owns many properties doted all over America, Malibu, Florida and California and they are all very comfortable.

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In 2006 he donated $115 million to Harvard University, and is also cited by Forbes as the most charitable. As well as education he also funded anti aging developmental techniques. His wish is to give away 95% of his wealth to charitable causes. CNET reported when Ellis grew richer than Microsoft's Bill Gates. I am currently still reading Bill Gates book "The Road Ahead" and its very good.

www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edgar-codd

Edgar F Codd and his paper wrote 40 years ago inspired Kristamurthi, Huei-Hung Chen, Klaus Zimmerman, and many other people. Research that ranges from Artificial Intelligence, cybernetic research and through Database programming and easily storing and organising complex data.

Your can read the list of people and the PDF from the 1970's by clicking the ACM link:

Basically Codd created twelve universal rules for database management to be relational and valid. The system must qualify as relational, as a database, and as a management system:

• Rule 1: The information rule
• Rule 2: The guaranteed access rule
• Rule 3: Systematic treatment of null values
• Rule 4: Active online catalog based on the relational model
• Rule 5: The comprehensive data sublanguage rule
• Rule 6: The view updating rule
• Rule 7: High-level insert, update, and delete
• Rule 8: Physical data independence
• Rule 9: Logical data independence
• Rule 10: Integrity independence
• Rule 11: Distribution independence
• Rule 12: The nonsubversion rule

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