A story from the DBMS wars
January 12, 2009
In 1982, George Byron Koch did a highly detailed technical review of many vendors of a shiny new kind of software: database management systems. Actually, DBMSs had been around, in one form or another, for a while at that point. But there had recently been an explosion of DBMS products on the market. The short story of this event, in the preface to the Oracle Complete Reference, recalls just how far the DBMS market has come since the time when the technology was as shiny and new as the compact disc.
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