offtopic maar goed;
Where did the word Oracle originate from?
The word Oracle means:
Prophecy or prediction; answer to a question believed to come from the gods; a statement believed to be infallible and authoritative; a shrine at which these answers are given
There is, however, more to the word Oracle: used for the name of the database engine, and then later for the company itself. Larry Ellison and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency in USA) where the CIA wanted to use this new SQL language that IBM had written a white paper about. The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give all answers to all questions or something such ;-).
The project eventually died (of sorts) but Larry and Bob saw the opportunity to take what they had started and market it. So they used that project's codename of Oracle to name their new RDBMS engine. Funny thing is, that one of Oracle's first customers was the CIA...
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Uiteraard ben ik het er overigens mee eens dat er een versienummer en een de naam van het DBMS genoemd had moeten worden; SQL server is in mijn ogen wel redelijk gangbaar, net als dat ik bij Windows niet MS Windows ga schrijven