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[TheFaQQer]

Oracle DB was originally a DEC product....

Nope - Oracle Database version 7 (1992) came before they bought RDB from DEC (1994)

[TheFaQQer]

All of them.

Here's a simple experiment. Find a company which uses any of those. Then ask them which database platform they are using.

I bet ye, 1 jam tart, they reply "Oracle" and not "Oracle Database".

There is a difference between "database platform" and "product".

What's the product you are using? "Oracle database 12c".
What's the platform? "Oracle".

See the difference there?

[suityou01]

There is a difference between "database platform" and "product".

What's the product you are using? "Oracle database 12c".
What's the platform? "Oracle".

See the difference there?

OK so to agree, Oracle is both a company and a platform then

[darmstadt]

All of them.

Here's a simple experiment. Find a company which uses any of those. Then ask them which database platform they are using.

I bet ye, 1 jam tart, they reply "Oracle" and not "Oracle Database".

Well of course if you ask them which database platform they're running they'll reply just Oracle unless they just happen to be running MySQL which is also Oracle so then you would have to quantify it with exactly which Oracle database product...

A. which database product are you running?
B. Oracle.
A. Yes, but which Oracle DB product?
B. Oh sorry, Oracle Database.

[darmstadt]

Nope - Oracle Database version 7 (1992) came before they bought RDB from DEC (1994)

And I was using Oracle RDBMS Version 5 back in '88 on MVS

[darmstadt]

There is a difference between "database platform" and "product".

What's the product you are using? "Oracle database 12c".
What's the platform? "Oracle".

See the difference there?

OK so to agree, Oracle is both a company and a platform then

I would slightly have to disagree as I don't think you can call Oracle the platform, rather the host OS would be the platform, IMHO...Oracle are the ISV providing the software

[suityou01]

Well of course if you ask them which database platform they're running they'll reply just Oracle unless they just happen to be running MySQL which is also Oracle so then you would have to quantify it with exactly which Oracle database product...

A. which database product are you running?
B. Oracle.
A. Yes, but which Oracle DB product?
B. Oh sorry, Oracle Database.

So as it is common parlance, we can say it is "called" Oracle then?

[TheFaQQer]

OK so to agree, Oracle is both a company and a platform then

Apart from you saying it was a product, yes.

[Pondlife]

So as it is common parlance, we can say it is "called" Oracle then?

So I just asked a colleague. Here is a transcription of our conversation.

Suity : Are you a German beer expert?
Colleague : No. I'm German and I drink beer.

Suity : That'll do. If I went into a bar and asked for a "Helles" would the barman know what I mean, or ask "Helles what?"
Colleague : Helles what. For example Koelsch and Pils are both Helles. You just asked for "a light coloured beer". You didn't specify which one.

Suity : Ha! You just made an Englishmen very happy.
Colleague : <Looking confused and slighltly scared>Ok then.<Walks off>

Apparently not

[suityou01]

Apart from you saying it was a product, yes.

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